COVID-19's impact on hospital stays, mortality, and readmissions for poverty-related diseases, noncommunicable diseases, and injury groups in Thailand.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aims to compare the trends in the quality of hospital care for WHO's three disease groups pre-, during, and post-COVID-19 pandemic peak in Thailand.

Methods

The study utilized existing hospital admission data from the Thai Health Information Portal (THIP) database, covering the period from 2017 to 2022. We categorized WHO's three disease groups: poverty-related, noncommunicable, and injury groups using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 of initial admission of patients, and we analyzed three major outcomes: prolonged (≥ 90th percentile) length of stay (LOS), hospital mortality, and readmission pre-, during, and post-COVID-19 pandemic peak. Relative weight (RW) of hospital reimbursements was used as a surrogate measure of the severity of the

SUBMITTER: Palupi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11389936 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature