Variation in Initial U.S. Hospital Responses to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has strained many healthcare systems. In response, U.S. hospitals altered their care delivery systems, but there are few data regarding specific structural changes. Understanding these changes is important to guide interpretation of outcomes and inform pandemic preparedness. We sought to characterize emergency responses across hospitals in the United States over time and in the context of local case rates early in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Design

We surveyed hospitals from a national acute care trials group regarding operational and structural changes made in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic from January to August 2020. We collected prepandemic characteristics and changes to hospital system, space

SUBMITTER: Mathews KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8217146 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature