COVID-19 Impact on Nurse Staffing and ICU Beds
By early December 2020, over 100,000 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States. Two key variables in...

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By early December 2020, over 100,000 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States. Two key variables in...
Our results show that the LUMC screening tool performed significantly better than qSOFA when challenged with real patient data...
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are more likely to develop sepsis and septic shock when compared to patients admitted with...
In the first seven months of the novel coronavirus pandemic, inpatient therapy choices have been considerably influenced by pre-publications,...
Hospital admissions declined by nearly a third this spring as concern about the coronavirus pandemic took hold and hospitals...
Asthma appears to have a more significant impact on outcomes in younger COVID-19 patients. We suggest that the additional...
Interest in the demographic characteristics of people with COVID-19 has been high since the start of the pandemic. Initially,...
The first collaborative study with the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition looked at the impact of famotidine treatment on the risk...
The CDC has raised concerns about increased isolation, fear, and anxiety during the pandemic. This brief examines how COVID-19...
Earlier this year, we published data demonstrating a 300-fold increase in telehealth, broken down by encounter reason and specialty....
Public policy decisions in the United States have relied on epidemiologic models that predict the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. We compared the assumptions in the IHME model to...
Our analysis found a dramatic–but temporary–decrease in procedures for cardiac arrhythmia and coronary artery disease, as well as procedures for all of the major organ cancers we examined. At...
Patients with severely elevated liver enzymes during admission for COVID-19 showed 2.5 times higher mortality rates when compared to patients with normal or moderately elevated levels…
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, experts expressed concerns that hypertensive patients taking RAAS inhibitors to control blood pressure might be at a higher risk of increased COVID-19 disease severity...
The number of cancer screenings has recently begun to rise, but has not yet reached previously expected levels: June 16 weekly volumes remained 29%, 36%, and 35% lower than...
Using data from nearly 50,000 hospitalized COVID-19 positive patients across the United States, statistically significant geographic variations in supportive oxygen treatment were demonstrated and not explained by differences in...
COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory infection; however, there are multiple examples of multi-organ and systemic dysfunction associated with this infection. In addition to lung damage, it appears that the...
The number of patients receiving first-time prescriptions for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) decreased by over 30% in the spring of 2020 when compared to trends observed in...
This brief was updated on June 26, 2020, with data as of June 18, 2020. Overall findings remain consistent, but the percentage of patients with an unknown outcome has...
For numerous reasons, some patients are tested for SARS-CoV-2 virus multiple times, and a small percentage of patients test positive more than once. We were interested in better understanding...
Recent data show that, while overall visit volumes have decreased dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, telehealth visits overall have increased 300-fold.1 This...
Using data from 190,194 COVID-19 patients, the following conditions were found to be most strongly associated with a higher risk of hospitalization and death: Heart failure, diabetes, a weakened...
Recent EHR data show that immunization administrations for pediatric patients have decreased by 42% in the spring of 2020 compared to prior years. It is estimated that 260,000 immunizations...
Severe obesity, defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 40 kg/m2 or higher, has been identified by the CDC as a risk factor for more severe COVID-19...
There has been recent conversation about the role that smoking status may play in severity of COVID-19 disease. To investigate this role, we examined the relationship between smoking status,...
Physicians at Mount Sinai are exploring new avenues of clinical investigation, based on the beneficial response of patients to tPA in a small, preliminary case series. Use of tPA,...
With many states issuing stay-at-home orders, healthcare organizations have decreased in-person office visits and increased telehealth visits. We found that telehealth visits increased 300-fold in this timeframe in 2020,...
COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality information were assessed in a sample of 36 million active patients.1 Nearly 10 million of those patients have documented hypertension, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
EHR data show a recent abrupt drop – between 86% and 94% – in preventive cancer screenings performed across the United States, presumably due to access disruptions caused by...
Researchers from Ochsner and local lab BioInfoExperts have sequenced the genetic code of samples from their COVID-19 patients to learn more about the virus’s spread in Louisiana and how...
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, there is a rush to find medications that, if taken before COVID-19 is acquired, may be protective against infection. Clinical trials are...
Story contributed by Cleveland Clinic. Never before has the need to leverage technology for population health management been more apparent. With the outbreak of COVID-19, consistent outreach and prompt...
Researchers at NYU Langone have sequenced the genetic code of samples from 91 COVID-19 patients in New York City, seeking clues to its origin and evolution in this region....
Investigators examined whether patients who were prescribed ibuprofen before they were infected with COVID-19 showed a difference in disease severity. Patients who were prescribed ibuprofen before infection had less...
Investigators examined which patient populations are most likely to be tested for COVID-19, test positive for COVID-19, and have the most severe outcomes. The analysis below includes 165,359 patients...