Perceived Hospital Stress, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Activity, and Care Process Temporal Variance During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic threatened standard hospital operations. We sought to understand how this stress was perceived and manifested within individual hospitals and in relation to local viral activity.

Design

Prospective weekly hospital stress survey, November 2020-June 2022.

Setting

Society of Critical Care Medicine's Discovery Severe Acute Respiratory Infection-Preparedness multicenter cohort study.

Subjects

Thirteen hospitals across seven U.S. health systems.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

We analyzed 839 hospital-weeks of data over 85 pandemic weeks and five viral surges. Perceived overall hospital, ICU, and emergency department (ED) stress due to severe acute respiratory infection patients during the pandemic were

SUBMITTER: Anesi GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10012837 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature