The impact of key secular trends during the first three waves the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patient age, comorbidity burden, and disease severity at presentation are the major factors associated with surviving COVID-19. Hospital-level factors including ICU occupancy may confer additional risk to individual patients, particularly at times of maximal stress on healthcare systems. The interaction of patient- and hospital-level factors over time during pandemic disease remains an area of active exploration.

Objective

To determine the impact of patient and hospital risk factors during episodic surges, characterize severity distribution between waves, and evaluate patient-level impact of ICU capacity on COVID-19 survivorship.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Four acute care hospitals within an integrated healthcare network in San Diego,

SUBMITTER: Lichtenstein BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239923 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature