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Abstract

[...]the potential for racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 have been deemed an urgent public health research priority [10]. The electronic health record database of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers the single largest nationwide data resource available with the necessary information on system-wide testing and detailed medical histories to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the US. Clinical characteristics were based on diagnostic codes for asthma, any cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, liver disease, vascular disease, and alcohol use disorder (definitions provided in S1 Table). Statistical analysis We calculated COVID-19 testing rate per 1,000 individuals in care and Clopper–Pearson 95% confidence intervals (CIs) by race/ethnicity category.

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Title
Patterns of COVID-19 testing and mortality by race and ethnicity among United States veterans: A nationwide cohort study
Author
Rentsch, Christopher T  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kidwai-Khan, Farah; Tate, Janet P; Park, Lesley S  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; King, Joseph T, Jr  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Skanderson, Melissa; Hauser, Ronald G  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Schultze, Anna  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jarvis, Christopher I; Holodniy, Mark  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Re, Vincent Lo, III  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Akgün, Kathleen M  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Crothers, Kristina  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Taddei, Tamar H  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Freiberg, Matthew S; Justice, Amy C  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
First page
e1003379
Section
Research Article
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Sep 2020
Publisher
Public Library of Science
ISSN
15491277
e-ISSN
15491676
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2479468069
Copyright
This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.