Trends in non-COVID-19 hospitalizations prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic period, United States, 2017 a€" 2021.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 pandemic-related shifts in healthcare utilization, in combination with trends in non-COVID-19 disease transmission and NPI use, had clear impacts on infectious and chronic disease hospitalization rates. Using a national healthcare billing database (C19RDB), we estimated the monthly incidence rate ratio of hospitalizations between March 2020 and June 2021 according to 19 ICD-10 diagnostic chapters and 189 subchapters. The majority of hospitalization causes showed an immediate decline in incidence during March 2020. Hospitalizations for diagnoses such as reproductive neoplasms, hypertension, and diabetes returned to pre-pandemic norms in incidence during late 2020 and early 2021, while others, like those for infectious respiratory disease, never returned to pre-pandemic norms. These

SUBMITTER: Cassell K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9094108 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature