Comparing length of hospital stay during COVID-19 pandemic in the USA, Italy and Germany.
Int J Qual Health Care
; 33(1)2021 Mar 31.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1139995
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
COVID-19 is the most informative pandemic in history. These unprecedented recorded data give rise to some novel concepts, discussions and models. Macroscopic modeling of the period of hospitalization is one of these new issues.METHODS:
Modeling of the lag between diagnosis and death is done by using two classes of macroscopic analyticalmethods:
the correlation-based methods based on Pearson, Spearman and Kendall correlation coefficients, and the logarithmic methods of two types. Also, we apply eight weighted average methods to smooth the time series before calculating the distance. We consider five lags with the least distance. All the computations are conducted on Matlab R2015b.RESULTS:
The length of hospitalization for the fatal cases in the USA, Italy and Germany are 2-10, 1-6 and 5-19 days, respectively. Overall, this length in the USA is 2 days more than that in Italy and 5 days less than that in Germany.CONCLUSION:
We take the distance between the diagnosis and death as the length of hospitalization. There is a negative association between the length of hospitalization and the case fatality rate. Therefore, the estimation of the length of hospitalization by using these macroscopic mathematical methods can be introduced as an indicator to scale the success of the countries fighting the ongoing pandemic.Keywords
Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Hospitalization
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Length of Stay
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
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Europa
Language:
English
Journal subject:
Health Services
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Intqhc
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