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OpenSAFELY: Factors associated with COVID-19 related hospital deaths in adult NHS patients, 28 April 2020

Cohort study looking at the factors associated with COVID-19 related hospital deaths.

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OpenSAFELY: Factors associated with COVID-19 related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients - 28 April 2020

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Paper prepared by academics on the factors associated with COVID-19 related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients. It was considered at SAGE 29 on 28 April 2020.

This paper is available as a pre-print from: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1.

It should be viewed in context: the paper was the best assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. The picture is developing rapidly and, as new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.

Therefore, some of the information in this paper may have been superseded and the author’s opinion or conclusion may since have developed.

These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.

Published 5 June 2020