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. 2021 Jun;18(6):1076-1079.
doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202011-1381RL.

Causes and Circumstances of Death among Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Scott W Ketcham  1 , Thomas C Bolig  1 , Daniel J Molling  1   2 , Michael W Sjoding  1   2 , Scott A Flanders  1 , Hallie C Prescott  1   2
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Causes and Circumstances of Death among Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Scott W Ketcham et al. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2021 Jun.
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Primary cause of death in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) versus non–COVID-19–related acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. The figure shows that pulmonary dysfunction was the most common primary cause of death in patients with COVID-19 (N = 82). The proportion of patients with pulmonary dysfunction as the primary cause of death was more than twofold higher than recent cohorts of decedents with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (N = 385). Death due to cardiac or neurologic dysfunction was less common among decedents with COVID-19.
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