• J Hosp Med · Apr 2021

    Variation in COVID-19 Mortality Across 117 US Hospitals in High- and Low-Burden Settings.

    • Brian L Block, Thomas M Martin, W John Boscardin, Kenneth E Covinsky, Michele Mourad, Lissy L Hu, and Alexander K Smith.
    • Division of Pulmonary Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
    • J Hosp Med. 2021 Apr 1; 16 (4): 215-218.

    AbstractSome hospitals have faced a surge of patients with COVID-19, while others have not. We assessed whether COVID-19 burden (number of patients with COVID-19 admitted during April 2020 divided by hospital certified bed count) was associated with mortality in a large sample of US hospitals. Our study population included 14,226 patients with COVID-19 (median age 66 years, 45.2% women) at 117 hospitals, of whom 20.9% had died at 5 weeks of follow-up. At the hospital level, the observed mortality ranged from 0% to 44.4%. After adjustment for age, sex, and comorbidities, the adjusted odds ratio for in-hospital death in the highest quintile of burden was 1.46 (95% CI, 1.07-2.00) compared to all other quintiles. Still, there was large variability in outcomes, even among hospitals with a similar level of COVID-19 burden and after adjusting for age, sex, and comorbidities.

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