Association Between Pandemic Coronavirus Disease 2019 Public Health Measures and Reduction in Critical Care Utilization Across ICUs in Alberta, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has disrupted critical care services across the world. In anticipation of surges in the need for critical care services, governments implemented "lockdown" measures to preserve and create added critical care capacity. Herein, we describe the impact of lockdown measures on the utilization of critical care services and patient outcomes compared with nonlockdown epochs in a large integrated health region.

Design

This was a population-based retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Seventeen adult ICUs across 14 acute care hospitals in Alberta, Canada.

Patients

All adult (age ≥ 15 yr) patients admitted to any study ICU.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

The main exposure was ICU admission duri

SUBMITTER: Bagshaw SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8855764 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature