Impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on mortality rate in memory clinic patients
Els D. Bakker,
Ingrid S. van Maurik,
Marissa D. Zwan
et al.
Abstract:INTRODUCTIONWe investigated whether mortality in memory clinic patients changed due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic.METHODSWe included patients from the Amsterdam Dementia Cohort: (1) n = 923 pandemic patients (baseline visit: 2017–2018, follow‐up: until 2021), and (2) n = 830 historical control patients (baseline visit: 2015–2016, follow‐up: until 2019). Groups were well‐balanced. We compared mortality during pandemic with historical control patients using Cox regression. Differences in cause … Show more
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