Hospital COVID-19 Burden and Adverse Event Rates.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced stresses on hospitals due to the surge in demand for care and to staffing shortages. The implications of these stresses for patient safety are not well understood.

Objective

To assess whether hospital COVID-19 burden was associated with the rate of in-hospital adverse effects (AEs).

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Quality and Safety Review System, a surveillance system that tracks the frequency of AEs among selected hospital admissions across the US. The study sample included randomly selected Medicare patient admissions to acute care hospitals in the US between September 1, 2020, and June 30, 2022.

Main outcomes and measures

The main

SUBMITTER: Metersky ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581512 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature