COVID-19 in Home Healthcare

University Hospital, Linkoeping

Status: Completed

Conditions: Covid19

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04642196

Home healthcare 2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

Assessment of cause of Death in home Healthcare residents in Östergötland County, Sweden, who had a positive COVID-19 diagnosis and died between March and September 2020.

Our aim is to evaluate the pattern of comorbidity and frailty in a group of individuals in home healthcare with positive COVID-19 diagnoses who had a fatal outcome, and a second aim is to assess the contribution of COVID-19 to those fatal outcomes.

Enrollment: 155 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult (< 18 years) individuals and
• cared for in home healthcare in Östergötland county and
• positive COVID-19 diagnosis and
• diseased between March and September 2020

Exclusion criteria

• none