X. Joan

Jan 13, 2025 | bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com | X. Joan |Simon FRASER

Our study goal is to establish the relationship of deaths and hospitalizations caused by COVID-19 over time across 34 public health units in Ontario, Canada while taking demographic, geographic, socio-economic, and vaccination variables into consideration. Our statistical analysis is undertaken at the level of public health unit.

Nov 13, 2023 | bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com | Simon FRASER |X. Joan

There were 5,022,536 ED presentations and 724,369 hospitalizations available for analysis involving 2,684,924 patients. High system users were 579,230 (21.6%) of the patients and had 2,461,004 (49.0%) of the ED presentations and 388,578 (53.6%) of the hospitalizations (Table 1). About 80% of the hospital encounter data were from Ontario. The cohort had a large proportion of patients from large urban areas and from lower income areas.