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ArticlePreventive medicine2022

COVID-19 vaccination is associated with reduced non-COVID in-hospital mortality.

Jochanan Benbassat, Paul Froom, Zvi Shimoni

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Article in Preventive medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jochanan BenbassatDepartment of Medicine (retired), Hadassah University Hospital Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: jochanan.benbassat@gmail.com.
Paul FroomClinical Utility Department, Sanz Medical Center, Laniado Hospital, Netanya and School of Public Health, University of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Zvi ShimoniMedical Director, Sanz Medical Center, Laniado Hospital, Netanya, Israel. Electronic address: zshimoni@laniado.org.il.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We retrieved data on a cohort of medical patients at a regional Israeli hospital. The dependent variable was non-COVID-19 hospital mortality; the independent variables were vaccination status, age, and laboratory data. Serum sodium, age, serum creatinine, and COVID-19 vaccination status were the main independent variables associated with non-COVID-19 mortality. The odds ratio for in-hospital deaths of non-vaccinated patients was 2.01 (1.65-2.44) (unadjusted) and 1.61 (1.29-2.03) after adjustment for the independent variables. This "healthy adherer effect" may confound observational assessments of the clinical efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.

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COVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesHospital MortalityHospitalsHumansVaccinationCOVID-19 VaccinesCOVID-19 vaccinationEfficacy of vaccineHealthy adherer effectIsraelMortalityRetrospective cohort studies

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PMID36332771
PMCPMC9625845

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