Care Disruption During COVID-19: a National Survey of Hospital Leaders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive disruption in usual care delivery patterns in hospitals across the USA, and highlighted long-standing inequities in health care delivery and outcomes. Its effect on hospital operations, and whether the magnitude of the effect differed for hospitals serving historically marginalized populations, is unknown.

Objective

To investigate the perspectives of hospital leaders on the effects of COVID-19 on their facilities' operations and patient outcomes.

Methods

A survey was administered via print and electronic means to hospital leaders at 588 randomly sampled acute-care hospitals participating in Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System, fielded from November 2020 to June 2021. Summary statistics were tabulated, and res

SUBMITTER: Huggins A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9845025 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature