Emergency medical admissions and COVID-19: impact on 30-day mortality and hospital length of stay.
Ir J Med Sci
; 191(4): 1905-1911, 2022 Aug.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2255548
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The COVID-19 pandemic has put considerable strain on healthcare systems.AIM:
To investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on 30-day in-hospital mortality, length of stay (LOS) and resource utilization in acute medical care.METHODS:
We compared emergency medical admissions to a single secondary care centre during 2020 to the preceding 18 years (2002-2019). We investigated 30-day in-hospital mortality with a multiple variable logistic regression model. Utilization of procedures/services was related to LOS with zero truncated Poisson regression.RESULTS:
There were 132,715 admissions in 67,185 patients over the 19-year study. There was a linear reduction in 30-day in-hospital mortality over time; over the most recent 5 years (2016-2020), there was a relative risk reduction of 36%, from 7.9 to 4.3% with a number needed to treat of 27.7. Emergency medical admissions increased 18.8% to 10,452 in 2020 with COVID-19 admissions representing 3.5%. 18.6% of COVID-19 cases required ICU admission with a median stay of 10.1 days (IQR 3.8, 16.0). COVID-19 was a significant univariate predictor of 30-day in-hospital mortality, 18.5% (95%CI 13.9, 23.1) vs. 3.0% (95%CI 2.7, 3.4)-OR 7.3 (95%CI 5.3, 10.1). ICU admission was the dominant outcome predictor-OR 12.4 (95%CI 7.7, 20.1). COVID-19 mortality in the last third of 2020 improved-OR 0.64 (95%CI 0.47, 0.86). Hospital LOS and resource utilization were increased.CONCLUSION:
A diagnosis of COVID-19 was associated with significantly increased mortality and LOS but represented only 3.5% of admissions and did not attenuate the established temporal decline in overall in-hospital mortality.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Ir J Med Sci
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S11845-021-02752-7
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