ABSTRACT
The survey assessed hospital stress ordinally and also assessed ED and ICU stress and deviations from standard operating procedures. During one December 2020 week, hospital stress, ICU stress, and care deviations were all present at 100% of reporting sites. B Introduction: b Hospitals experienced substantial stress during the COVID-19 pandemic - threats to standard operations - but it is not well known how this stress manifested at individual hospitals. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Critical Care Medicine is the property of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)