Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on critical care utilization in Japan: a nationwide inpatient database study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted critical care services worldwide. Examining how critical care systems responded to the COVID-19 pandemic on a national level will be useful in setting future critical care plans. The present study aimed to describe the utilization of critical care services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using a nationwide Japanese inpatient administrative database.

Methods

All patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) or a high-dependency care unit (HDU) from February 9, 2019, to February 8, 2021, in the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination inpatient database were included. February 9, 2020, was used as the breakpoint separating the periods before and during COVID-19 pandemic. Hospital and patient

SUBMITTER: Ohbe H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9716532 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature