Changing trends of patient characteristics and treatment pathways during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional analysis of 72,459 inpatient cases from the German Helios database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study compared patient profiles and clinical courses of SARS-CoV-2 infected inpatients over different pandemic periods.

Methods

In a retrospective cross-sectional analysis, we examined administrative data of German Helios hospitals using ICD-10-codes at discharge. Inpatient cases with SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted between 03/04/2020 and 07/19/2022 were included irrespective of the reason for hospitalization. All endpoints were timely assigned to admission date for trend analysis. The first pandemic wave was defined by change points in time-series of incident daily infections and compared with different later pandemic phases according to virus type predominance.

Results

We included 72,459 inpatient cases. Patients hospitalized during the first pandemic

SUBMITTER: Konig S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9678052 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature