Hospital Strain and COVID-19 Fatality — England, April 2020–March 2022

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS TOPIC? During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, tremendous efforts have been made in countries to suppress epidemic peaks and strengthen hospital services to avoid hospital strain and ultimately reduce the risk of death from COVID-19. However, there i...

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Autores principales: Lin, Tengfei, Zhao, Ziyi, Yang, Zhirong, Li, Bingli, Wei, Chang, Li, Fuxiao, Jiang, Yiwen, Liu, Di, Yang, Zuyao, Sha, Feng, Tang, Jinling
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Editorial Office of CCDCW, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2022
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Preplanned Studies
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9906047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36779170
http://dx.doi.org/10.46234/ccdcw2022.236
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Sumario:WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS TOPIC? During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, tremendous efforts have been made in countries to suppress epidemic peaks and strengthen hospital services to avoid hospital strain and ultimately reduce the risk of death from COVID-19. However, there is limited empirical evidence that hospital strain increases COVID-19 deaths. WHAT IS ADDED BY THIS REPORT? We found the risk of death from COVID-19 was linearly associated with the number of patients currently in hospitals, a measure of hospital strain, before the Omicron period. This risk could be increased by a maximum of 188.0%. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE? These findings suggest that any (additional) effort to reduce hospital strain would be beneficial during early large COVID-19 outbreaks and possibly also others alike. During an Omicron outbreak, vigilance remains necessary to prevent excess deaths caused by hospital strain as happened in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.

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