HIV infection and COVID-19 death: a population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform
Bhaskaran K, Rentsch CT, MacKenna B, Schultze A, Mehrkar A, Bates CJ, Eggo RM, Morton CE, Bacon SCJ, Inglesby P, Douglas IJ, Walker AJ, McDonald HI, Cockburn J, Williamson EJ, Evans D, Forbes HJ, Curtis HJ, Hulme WJ, Parry J, Hester F, Harper S, Evans SJW, Smeeth L, Goldacre B. HIV infection and COVID-19 death: a population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform. The Lancet HIV 2020, 8: e24-e32. PMID: 33316211, PMCID: PMC7773630, DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3018(20)30305-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCOVID-19 deathsNational death registrationsPrimary care dataHazard ratioHIV infectionOpenSAFELY platformBlack ethnicityHealth Research Oxford Biomedical Research CentreElectronic primary care dataPopulation-based cohort analysisDeath registrationUK primary care dataCare dataLarge-scale population-based studyRetrospective cohort studyPrimary care recordsUK Medical Research CouncilPopulation-based studyRisk of deathHealth Data Research UKNon-black individualsNational InstituteCOVID-19 mortalityMedical Research CouncilBiomedical Research Centre