Patient Outcomes and Lessons Learned From Treating Patients With Severe COVID-19 at a Long-term Acute Care Hospital: Single-Center Retrospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting active COVID-19 care from short-term acute care hospitals (STACHs) to long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) could decrease STACH census during critical stages of the pandemic and maximize limited resources.

Objective

This study aimed to describe the characteristics, clinical management, and patient outcomes during and after the acute COVID-19 phase in an LTACH in the Northeastern United States.

Methods

This was a single-center group comparative retrospective analysis of the electronic medical records of patients treated for COVID-19-related impairments from March 19, 2020, through August 14, 2020, and a reference population of medically complex patients discharged between December 1, 2019, and Febru

SUBMITTER: Grevelding P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8834875 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature