Bmc Med Res Methodol
-
Bmc Med Res Methodol · Dec 2020
Multicenter StudyUse of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest registries to assess COVID-19 home mortality.
In most countries, the official statistics for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) take account of in-hospital deaths but not those that occur at home. The study's objective was to introduce a methodology to assess COVID-19 home deaths by analysing the French national out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) registry (RéAC). ⋯ The ratio of COVID-19 out-of-hospital deaths to in-hospital deaths was 12.4%, and so the national statistics underestimated the death rate.