Big data evidence of the impact of COVID-19 hospitalizations on mortality rates of non-COVID-19 critically ill patients.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 virus caused a global pandemic leading to a swift policy response. While this response was designed to prevent the spread of the virus and support those with COVID-19, there is growing evidence regarding measurable impacts on non-COVID-19 patients. The paper uses a large dataset from administrative records of the Brazilian public health system (SUS) to estimate pandemic spillover effects in critically ill health care delivery, i.e. the additional mortality risk that COVID-19 ICU hospitalizations generate on non-COVID-19 patients receiving intensive care. The data contain the universe of ICU hospitalizations in SUS from February 26, 2020 to December 31, 2021. Spillover estimates are obtained from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models that control for a number of unob

SUBMITTER: Wichmann B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10442321 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature