Understanding hospital rehabilitation using electronic health records in patients with and without COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many hospitalised patients require rehabilitation during recovery from acute illness. We use routine data from Electronic Health Records (EHR) to report the quantity and intensity of rehabilitation required to achieve hospital discharge, comparing patients with and without COVID-19.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of consecutive adults in whom COVID-19 testing was undertaken between March 2020 and August 2021 across three acute hospitals in Scotland. We defined rehabilitation contacts (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics and speech and language therapy) from timestamped EHR data and determined contact time from a linked workforce planning dataset. Our aim was to clarify rehabilitation required to achieve hospital discharge and so we ex

SUBMITTER: Georgiev K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11484221 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature