Risk of death among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Mato Grosso during the first year of the pandemic, Brazil

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the factors associated with hospital mortality due to COVID-19 in Mato Grosso in 2020. Methods: We considered the hospitalization records from March to December 2020, from patients with COVID-19 aged 19 years or older residing in Mato Grosso. Data were obtained from the state government’s system and Hazard Ratios were estimated using the Poisson regression model. Results: Of the 17,523 hospitalization records of COVID-19, 4,147 died (23.7%), with higher risk of death among patients aged 40 years or older, black-brown, indigenous, some comorbidity, who were admitted to the ICU bed, who did not reside in the central macro-region of the state, and who were hospitalized in June and July, those with the highest concentration of hospitalizations for COVID-19. Conclusion: Besides the individual factors, organization and preparation of the care network to attend to severe cases of the disease were associated with risk of death by COVID-19.