Clinical Trends Among U.S. Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March to December 2020 : A Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial morbidity and mortality.

Objective

To describe monthly clinical trends among adults hospitalized with COVID-19.

Design

Pooled cross-sectional study.

Setting

99 counties in 14 states participating in the Coronavirus Disease 2019-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET).

Patients

U.S. adults (aged ≥18 years) hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 during 1 March to 31 December 2020.

Measurements

Monthly hospitalizations, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and in-hospital death rates per 100 000 persons in the population; monthly trends in weighted percentages of interventions, including ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, and vasopressor use, among an age- and s

SUBMITTER: Garg S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8381761 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature