Faculty, alum publish study on veterans with COVID and risk of preventable hospitalizations
Public health alumna Diana Govier, faculty epidemiologist Yumie Takata, and Professor Denise Hynes, along with a team of collaborators, recently published Risk of Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in JAMA Network Open.
Findings from their large cohort study revealed that veterans enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration with SARS-CoV-2 had three times greater risk of potentially preventable hospitalization than matched comparators without SARS-CoV-2 within 30 days after infection and more than 40% greater risk at one year. It highlights the consequences of the decreased availability of outpatient care broadly, and in the veteran population in particular, during the pandemic. This work was funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research program.