The Association Between Hospital Occupancy and Mortality Among Medicare Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital crowding is a major challenge facing US health care systems, but few studies have evaluated the association between inpatient occupancy and patient mortality. The objective of this study was to determine how increasing hospital occupancy is associated with the likelihood of inpatient and 30-day out-of-hospital mortality using a novel measure of inpatient occupancy.

Methods

The researchers conducted a retrospective, observational study using secondary data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, including nonfederal, acute care facilities from 1998 to 2012. Using measures of relative hospital occupancy, the researchers ran logistic regressions to assess the relationship between increasing hospital occupancy and inpatient mo

SUBMITTER: Abir M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7483708 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature