Universal health care delivery mitigates socioeconomic-related risk for adverse outcomes in hospitalised patients: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia

• Fahimeh Faqihi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Rita Perri,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Jimmy Chien ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jimmy Chien, Jin-Gun Cho, Stephen Milne

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5303-5395

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• Jin-Gun Cho ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jimmy Chien, Jin-Gun Cho, Stephen Milne

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Stephen Milne ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jimmy Chien, Jin-Gun Cho, Stephen Milne

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5274-1298

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• Shopna Bag ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Centre for Population Health, Western Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6987-3764

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• Nicole Gilroy ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• John R. Wheatley,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Kristina Kairaitis

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Kristina.Kairaitis@sydney.edu.au

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8808-3183

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