Ten months of temporal variation in the clinical journey of hospitalised patients with COVID-19: An observational cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is potentially considerable variation in the nature and duration of the care provided to hospitalised patients during an infectious disease epidemic or pandemic. Improvements in care and clinician confidence may shorten the time spent as an inpatient, or the need for admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) or high dependency unit (HDU). On the other hand, limited resources at times of high demand may lead to rationing. Nevertheless, these variables may be used as static proxies for disease severity, as outcome measures for trials, and to inform planning and logistics.

Methods

We investigate these time trends in an extremely large international cohort of 142,540 patients hospitalised with COVID-19. Investigated are: time from symptom onset to hospital admis

SUBMITTER: ISARIC Clinical Characterisation Group 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8791638 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature