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Long-term healthcare resource use and cost associated with COVID-19 disease from a health system perspective. An equity-focused population-based cohort study

2026-01-18 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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SARS-CoV-2 strained Ontarios health system, with social determinants of health (SDH) underexplored in cost analyses. We examined COVID-19 attributable healthcare resource use and costs from the Ontario health system perspective using health administrative data. We conducted a cohort study, matching 162,633 SARS-CoV-2-exposed individuals 1:1 to unexposed individuals. We calculated 10-day per-person mean attributable costs (2023 CAD) across care phases (pre-diagnosis, acute, post-acute, terminal),...

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