Kapil Gururangan, Veronica J Peschansky, Grace Van Hyfte, Parul Agarwal, Leah J Blank, Brian Mathew, Jonathan Goldstein, Churl-Su Kwon, Louise McCarthy, Ariella Cohen, Andy Ho Wing Chan, Pojen Deng, Mandip Dhamoon, Eveline Gutzwiller, Qing Hao, Celestine He, Britany Klenofsky, Hernan Nicolas Lemus, Lara Marcuse, Allison Navis, Wilson D Heredia Nunez, Mallory N Luckey, Emily M Schorr, Anuradha Singh, Gabriela B Tantillo, Claire Ufongene, James J Young, Priti Balchandani, Joanne R Festa, Georges Naasan, Alexander W Charney, Girish N Nadkarni, Nathalie Jetté
OBJECTIVE: To describe the frequency of neuropsychiatric complications among hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and their association with pre-existing comorbidities and clinical outcomes. METHODS: We retrospectively identified all patients hospitalized with COVID-19 within a large multicenter New York City health system between March 15, 2020 and May 17, 2021 and randomly selected a representative cohort for detailed chart review. Clinical data, including the occurrence of neuropsychiatric complications (categorized as either altered mental status [AMS] or other neuropsychiatric complications) and in-hospital mortality, were extracted using an electronic medical record database and individual chart review...
April 24, 2024: Journal of Neurology