Universal health care delivery mitigates socioeconomic-related risk for adverse outcomes in hospitalised patients: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
In the absence of capacity restraints, socioeconomic disadvantage was not associated with severe in-hospital outcomes in a well-resourced care environment despite increased rates of infection and hospitalisation. This highlights the impact of universally accessible, standardised, protocolised, high-quality in-hospital care in reducing the risk of adverse in-hospital outcomes in socioeconomically disadvantaged patients.
Authors
- Jin‐Gun Cho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0735-4691)
- John R. Wheatley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1605-8843)
- Rita Perri
- Shopna Bag (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6987-3764)
- Stephen B Milne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5274-1298)
- Fahimeh Faqihi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1359-4616)
- Jimmy Chien (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5303-5395)
- Kristina Kairaitis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8808-3183)
- Nicole Gilroy
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Westmead Hospital (AU)
- Sydney Local Health District (AU)
- Westmead Institute for Medical Research (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2025-05-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322780
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.05