Predicting COVID-19-Related Health Care Resource Utilization Across a Statewide Patient Population: Model Development Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inability of health systems to leverage existing system infrastructure in order to rapidly develop and apply broad analytical tools that could inform state- and national-level policymaking, as well as patient care delivery in hospital settings. The COVID-19 pandemic has also led to highlighted systemic disparities in health outcomes and access to care based on race or ethnicity, gender, income-level, and urban-rural divide. Although the United States seems to be recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic owing to widespread vaccination efforts and increased public awareness, there is an urgent need to address the aforementioned challenges.

Objective

This study aims to inform the feasibility of leveraging broad, statewide datase

SUBMITTER: Kasturi SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8594735 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature