Associations between the COVID-19 pandemic and hospital infrastructure adaptation and planning—a scoping review

C Ndayishimiye, C Sowada, P Dyjach… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has put unprecedented pressure on the hospital sector around
the world. It has shown the importance of preparing and planning in the future for an …

[HTML][HTML] Hospital length of stay for COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Alimohamadi, EM Yekta, M Sepandi… - Multidisciplinary …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The length of stay in the hospital for COVID-19 can aid in understanding the disease's
prognosis. Thus, the goal of this study was to collectively estimate the hospital length of stay …

Time between symptom onset, hospitalisation and recovery or death: statistical analysis of Belgian COVID-19 patients

C Faes, S Abrams, D Van Beckhoven… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
There are different patterns in the COVID-19 outbreak in the general population and
amongst nursing home patients. We investigate the time from symptom onset to diagnosis …

Transmission dynamics of monkeypox in the United Kingdom: contact tracing study

T Ward, R Christie, RS Paton, F Cumming, CE Overton - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Objective To analyse the transmission dynamics of the monkeypox outbreak in the UK,
declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in July 2022. Design Contact …

Co-infections, secondary infections, and antimicrobial use in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first five waves of the pandemic in Pakistan; findings and …

K Ramzan, S Shafiq, I Raees, ZU Mustafa, M Salman… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: COVID-19 patients are typically prescribed antibiotics empirically despite
concerns. There is a need to evaluate antibiotic use among hospitalized COVID-19 patients …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling COVID-19 hospital admissions and occupancy in the Netherlands

R Bekker, M uit het Broek, G Koole - European journal of operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
We describe the models we built for predicting hospital admissions and bed occupancy of
COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands. These models were used to make short-term …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of hospitalisations based on wastewater-based SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology

H Schenk, P Heidinger, H Insam, N Kreuzinger… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology is widely applied in Austria since April 2020 to monitor the
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. With a steadily increasing number of monitored wastewater …

Challenges in estimation, uncertainty quantification and elicitation for pandemic modelling

B Swallow, P Birrell, J Blake, M Burgman, P Challenor… - Epidemics, 2022 - Elsevier
The estimation of parameters and model structure for informing infectious disease response
has become a focal point of the recent pandemic. However, it has also highlighted a …

Real-time forecasting of COVID-19 bed occupancy in wards and Intensive Care Units

S Baas, S Dijkstra, A Braaksma, P van Rooij… - Health care …, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents a mathematical model that provides a real-time forecast of the number
of COVID-19 patients admitted to the ward and the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital …

Factors associated with prolonged length of hospital stay among COVID-19 cases admitted to the largest treatment center in Eastern Ethiopia

A Birhanu, BT Merga, GM Ayana, A Alemu… - SAGE open …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: The hospital admissions load and how long each patient will stay in the
hospital should be known to prevent the overwhelming of the health system during …