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A Closer Look Into Global Hospital Beds Capacity and Resource Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic
BACKGROUND: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a question of whether hospitals have adequate resources to manage patients. We aim to investigate global hospital bed (HB), acute care bed (ACB), and intensive care unit (ICU) bed capacity and determine any correlation between these hospital r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685049/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33321393 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2020.11.062 |
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author | Sen-Crowe, Brendon Sutherland, Mason McKenney, Mark Elkbuli, Adel |
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description | BACKGROUND: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a question of whether hospitals have adequate resources to manage patients. We aim to investigate global hospital bed (HB), acute care bed (ACB), and intensive care unit (ICU) bed capacity and determine any correlation between these hospital resources and COVID-19 mortality. METHOD: Cross-sectional study utilizing data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other official organizations regarding global HB, ACB, ICU bed capacity, and confirmed COVID-19 cases/mortality. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were performed. RESULTS: A total of 183 countries were included with a mean of 307.1 HBs, 413.9 ACBs, and 8.73 ICU beds/100,000 population. High-income regions had the highest mean number of ICU beds (12.79) and HBs (402.32) per 100,000 population whereas upper middle-income regions had the highest mean number of ACBs (424.75) per 100,000. A weakly positive significant association was discovered between the number of ICU beds/100,000 population and COVID-19 mortality. No significant associations exist between the number of HBs or ACBs per 100,000 population and COVID-19 mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Global COVID-19 mortality rates are likely affected by multiple factors, including hospital resources, personnel, and bed capacity. Higher income regions of the world have greater ICU, acute care, and hospital bed capacities. Mandatory reporting of ICU, acute care, and hospital bed capacity/occupancy and information relating to coronavirus should be implemented. Adopting a tiered critical care approach and targeting the expansion of space, staff, and supplies may serve to maximize the quality of care during resurgences and future disasters. |
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spelling | pubmed-76850492020-11-25 A Closer Look Into Global Hospital Beds Capacity and Resource Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic Sen-Crowe, Brendon Sutherland, Mason McKenney, Mark Elkbuli, Adel J Surg Res Global Health BACKGROUND: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a question of whether hospitals have adequate resources to manage patients. We aim to investigate global hospital bed (HB), acute care bed (ACB), and intensive care unit (ICU) bed capacity and determine any correlation between these hospital resources and COVID-19 mortality. METHOD: Cross-sectional study utilizing data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other official organizations regarding global HB, ACB, ICU bed capacity, and confirmed COVID-19 cases/mortality. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were performed. RESULTS: A total of 183 countries were included with a mean of 307.1 HBs, 413.9 ACBs, and 8.73 ICU beds/100,000 population. High-income regions had the highest mean number of ICU beds (12.79) and HBs (402.32) per 100,000 population whereas upper middle-income regions had the highest mean number of ACBs (424.75) per 100,000. A weakly positive significant association was discovered between the number of ICU beds/100,000 population and COVID-19 mortality. No significant associations exist between the number of HBs or ACBs per 100,000 population and COVID-19 mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Global COVID-19 mortality rates are likely affected by multiple factors, including hospital resources, personnel, and bed capacity. Higher income regions of the world have greater ICU, acute care, and hospital bed capacities. Mandatory reporting of ICU, acute care, and hospital bed capacity/occupancy and information relating to coronavirus should be implemented. Adopting a tiered critical care approach and targeting the expansion of space, staff, and supplies may serve to maximize the quality of care during resurgences and future disasters. Elsevier Inc. 2021-04 2020-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7685049/ /pubmed/33321393 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2020.11.062 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Global Health Sen-Crowe, Brendon Sutherland, Mason McKenney, Mark Elkbuli, Adel A Closer Look Into Global Hospital Beds Capacity and Resource Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | A Closer Look Into Global Hospital Beds Capacity and Resource Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | A Closer Look Into Global Hospital Beds Capacity and Resource Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | A Closer Look Into Global Hospital Beds Capacity and Resource Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | A Closer Look Into Global Hospital Beds Capacity and Resource Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | A Closer Look Into Global Hospital Beds Capacity and Resource Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | closer look into global hospital beds capacity and resource shortages during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Global Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685049/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33321393 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2020.11.062 |
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