Association of Surge Conditions with Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether surge conditions were associated with increased mortality.

Design

Multicenter cohort study.

Setting

U.S. ICUs participating in STOP-COVID.

Patients

Consecutive adults with COVID-19 admitted to participating ICUs between March 4 and July 1, 2020.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

The main outcome was 28-day in-hospital mortality. To assess the association between admission to an ICU during a surge period and mortality, we used two different strategies: (1) an inverse probability weighted difference-in-differences model limited to appropriately matched surge and non-surge patients and (2) a meta-regression of 50 multivariable difference-in-differences models (each based on sets of randomly matched surge

SUBMITTER: Keene AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8926920 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature