Hospital bed occupancy rate is an independent risk factor for COVID-19 inpatient mortality: a pandemic epicentre cohort study

F Castagna, X Xue, O Saeed, R Kataria, YA Puius… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction COVID-19 first struck New York City in the spring of 2020, resulting in an
unprecedented strain on our healthcare system and triggering multiple changes in public …

Inpatient COVID-19 mortality has reduced over time: results from an observational cohort

K Bechman, M Yates, K Mann, D Nagra, LJ Smith… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background The Covid-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom has seen two waves; the first
starting in March 2020 and the second in late October 2020. It is not known whether …

Hospital mortality and resource implications of hospitalisation with COVID‐19 in London, UK: a prospective cohort study

S Vlachos, A Wong, V Metaxa… - … Care Research and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) had a significant impact on the
National Health Service in the United Kingdom (UK), with over 35 000 cases reported in …

COVID-19 hospital prevalence as a risk factor for mortality: an observational study of a multistate cohort of 62 hospitals

MG Fakih, A Ottenbacher, B Yehia, R Fogel… - BMJ quality & …, 2022 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background The associated mortality with COVID-19 has improved compared with the early
pandemic period. The effect of hospital COVID-19 patient prevalence on COVID-19 mortality …

Variation in COVID‐19 Mortality Across 117 US Hospitals in High‐and Low‐Burden Settings

BL Block, TM Martin, WJ Boscardin… - Journal of Hospital …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Some hospitals have faced a surge of patients with COVID‐19, while others have not. We
assessed whether COVID‐19 burden (number of patients with COVID‐19 admitted during …

Hospital bed capacity and usage across secondary healthcare providers in England during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive analysis

BA Mateen, H Wilde, JM Dennis, A Duncan… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective In this study, we describe the pattern of bed occupancy across England during the
peak of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Descriptive survey. Setting All non …

[HTML][HTML] Healthcare system stress due to Covid-19: evading an evolving crisis

A Karan, RK Wadhera - Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During the early phase of the novel coronavirus dis-ease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in the
United States, public health strategies focused on “flattening the curve” to ensure that …

Mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients was associated with the COVID-19 admission rate during the first year of the pandemic in Sweden

K Strålin, E Wahlström, S Walther… - Infectious …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Studies from the first pandemic wave found associations between COVID-19
hospital load and mortality. Here, we aimed to study if mortality of hospitalized COVID-19 …

Importance of patient bed pathways and length of stay differences in predicting COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy in England

QJ Leclerc, NM Fuller, RH Keogh, K Diaz-Ordaz… - BMC health services …, 2021 - Springer
Background Predicting bed occupancy for hospitalised patients with COVID-19 requires
understanding of length of stay (LoS) in particular bed types. LoS can vary depending on the …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of the anticipated burden of COVID-19 on hospital-based healthcare services across the United States

R Khera, S Jain, Z Lin, JS Ross, HM Krumholz - medRxiv, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic, with the potential to
infect nearly 60% of the population. 1 The disease is associated with high morbidity and …