COVID-19 Impact on Nurse Staffing and ICU Beds
Original Article: Data Analysis·5 January 2021
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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Comparison of an ED Triage Sepsis Screening Tool in Identifying CMS SEP-1 Patients
Innovators: Loyola Medicine·25 November 2020
Our results show that the LUMC screening tool performed significantly better than qSOFA when challenged with real patient data...
Sepsis Mortality Rates are Higher in Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 Than for Influenza
Original Article: Data Analysis·19 November 2020
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are more likely to develop sepsis and septic shock when compared to patients admitted with...
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Patient-Initiated Data: Our Experience Enabling Patients to Initiate Incorporation of Heart Rate Data into the EHR
Innovators: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center·15 October 2020
Provider organizations increasingly allow incorporation of patient-generated data into electronic health records (EHRs). In...
Silver Linings Pandemic
Perspectives: CHOP·6 July 2020
Life was so normal a few weeks ago. For me, and I imagine for...
NYU Langone Health: Telemedicine Growth at An Epicenter of COVID-19
Innovators: NYU Langone Health·22 June 2020
Evidence from one large health system—NYU Langone Health—at an epicenter of the coronavirus disease...
OCHIN: Health Care Trends and Transformation During COVID-19
Innovators: OCHIN·9 June 2020
Story contributed by OCHIN. Recent EHR data show that while the rate of COVID-19...
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Trends in COVID-19 Inpatient Therapeutics
Original Article: Data Analysis·10 November 2020
In the first seven months of the novel coronavirus pandemic, inpatient therapy choices have been considerably influenced by pre-publications,...
Trends in Overall and Non-COVID-19 Hospital Admissions
Collaborations: Kaiser Family Foundation·16 October 2020
Hospital admissions declined by nearly a third this spring as concern about the coronavirus pandemic took hold and hospitals...
Asthma Has a Greater Impact on Outcomes in Younger COVID-19 Patients
Original Article: Data Analysis·21 September 2020
Asthma appears to have a more significant impact on outcomes in younger COVID-19 patients. We suggest that the additional...
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COVID-19 Racial Disparities in Testing, Infection, Hospitalization, and Death: Analysis of Epic Patient Data
Collaborations·15 September 2020
- Racial disparities in hospitalization and death persisted among positive patients even after controlling for certain sociodemographic factors and underlying...
COVID-19 Prevalence Has Increased More in Younger Patients than Other Age Groups
Original Article: Data Analysis·8 September 2020
Interest in the demographic characteristics of people with COVID-19 has been high since the start of the pandemic. Initially,...
COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition: Independent Investigations Show Famotidine Does Not Lower Risk of Death in COVID-19 Patients
Collaborations·2 September 2020
The first collaborative study with the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition looked at the impact of famotidine treatment on the risk...
Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Visit Patterns for Anxiety and Depression
Original Article: Data Analysis·19 August 2020
The CDC has raised concerns about increased isolation, fear, and anxiety during the pandemic. This brief examines how COVID-19...
Telehealth: Fad or the Future
Original Article: Data Analysis·18 August 2020
Earlier this year, we published data demonstrating a 300-fold increase in telehealth, broken down by encounter reason and specialty....
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Inpatient Lengths of Stay, Number of ICU Days Among COVID-19 Patients Differ from Common Model Assumptions
Original Article: Data Analysis·14 August 2020
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...
Non-Emergency Procedure Volumes in the Wake of COVID-19
Original Article: Data Analysis·28 July 2020
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...
COVID-19 Patients with Elevated Liver Enzymes Show Higher Mortality Rates
Original Article: Data Analysis·23 July 2020
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…
Hypertensive Patients Treated with Medication Show Better COVID-19 Outcomes than Untreated Patients
Original Article: Data Analysis·21 July 2020
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...
Delayed Cancer Screenings—A Second Look
Original Article: Data Analysis | Update·17 July 2020
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...
Geographic Variation in Use of Oxygen Support
Original Article: Data Analysis·16 July 2020
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...
Acute Kidney Injury in Admitted COVID-19 Patients
Original Article: Data Analysis·1 July 2020
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...
Fewer Patients Started on Medications for Opioid Use Disorder During COVID-19
Original Article: Data Analysis·29 June 2020
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...
Mortality of COVID-19 Admitted Patients on Mechanical Ventilators
Original Article: Data Analysis | Update·26 June 2020
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...
Patients with Multiple Positive COVID-19 Tests
Original Article: Data Analysis·12 June 2020
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...
As Office Visits Fall, Telehealth Takes Hold
Original Article: Data Analysis·12 June 2020
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...
Effect of Comorbidities on Hospitalization and Death in COVID-19 Patients
Report·2 June 2020
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...
Pediatric Immunizations Drop in the Wake of COVID-19
Original Article: Data Analysis·19 May 2020
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...
Obesity and COVID-19 Severity
Original Article: Data Analysis·8 May 2020
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...
COVID-19 Severity by Smoking Status
Original Article: Data Analysis·7 May 2020
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,...
Mount Sinai Studies COVID-19 and Blood Clots
Innovators: Mount Sinai·5 May 2020
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,...
Expansion of Telehealth During COVID-19 Pandemic
Original Article: Data Analysis·5 May 2020
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,...
Prevalence of Comorbidities in COVID-19 Related Hospitalizations and Deaths
Original Article: Data Analysis·4 May 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...
Delayed Cancer Screenings
Original Article: Data Analysis·4 May 2020
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...
Learning from New Orleans’ COVID-19 Gene Sequence
Innovators: Ochsner Health System·1 May 2020
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...
Prior Outpatient Medications and Subsequent COVID-19 Positive Status
Original Article: Data Analysis·1 May 2020
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...
COVID-19 Home Monitoring: The Role of Technology
Innovators: Cleveland Clinic·29 April 2020
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...
NYU Langone Scientists Track Evolution of Virus
Innovators: NYU Langone Health·29 April 2020
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....
Ibuprofen and COVID-19 Severity
Original Article: Data Analysis·29 April 2020
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...
COVID-19 Population Characteristics: Age and Sex
Original Article: Data Analysis·29 April 2020
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...
