6-month mortality and readmissions of hospitalized COVID-19 patients: A nationwide cohort study of 8,679 patients in Germany

• Christian Günster ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Günster, Reinhard Busse

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Research Institute of the Local Health Care Funds, Federal Association of the Local Health Care Funds, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3085-6259

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• Reinhard Busse ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Günster, Reinhard Busse

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Management, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Melissa Spoden,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Research Institute of the Local Health Care Funds, Federal Association of the Local Health Care Funds, Berlin, Germany

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• Tanja Rombey,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Management, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Gerhard Schillinger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Research Institute of the Local Health Care Funds, Federal Association of the Local Health Care Funds, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2940-2965

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• Wolfgang Hoffmann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health, Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Steffen Weber-Carstens,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Andreas Schuppert,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Computational Biomedicine II, University Hospital RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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• Christian Karagiannidis

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Christian.Karagiannidis@uni-wh.de, karagiannidisc@kliniken-koeln.de

  Affiliation Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, Kliniken der Stadt Köln, Witten/Herdecke University Hospital, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3247-2849

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