• Valerie Danesh, Heath D White, Kristen M Tecson, R Jay Widmer, Elisa L Priest, Ariel Modrykamien, Gerald O Ogola, I-Chia Liao, Jacallene Bomar, Alfredo Vazquez, Edgar J Jimenez, and Alejandro C Arroliga.
• Center for Applied Health Research, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, Dallas, Texas. Valerie.Danesh@BSWHealth.org.
• Respir Care. 2023 Apr 1; 68 (4): 497504497-504.

BackgroundMany COVID-19 studies are constructed to report hospitalization outcomes, with few large multi-center population-based reports on the time course of intra-hospitalization characteristics, including daily oxygenation support requirements. Comprehensive epidemiologic profiles of oxygenation methods used by day and by week during hospitalization across all severities are important to illustrate the clinical and economic burden of COVID-19 hospitalizations.MethodsThis was a retrospective, multi-center observational cohort study of 15,361 consecutive hospitalizations of patients with COVID-19 at 25 adult acute care hospitals in Texas participating in the Society of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Respiratory Illness Universal Study COVID-19 registry.ResultsAt initial hospitalization, the majority required nasal cannula (44.0%), with an increasing proportion of invasive mechanical ventilation in the first week and particularly the weeks to follow. After 4 weeks of acute illness, 69.9% of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 required intermediate (eg, high-flow nasal cannula, noninvasive ventilation) or advanced respiratory support (ie, invasive mechanical ventilation), with similar proportions that extended to hospitalizations that lasted ≥ 6 weeks.ConclusionsData representation of intra-hospital processes of care drawn from hospitals with varied size, teaching and trauma designations is important to presenting a balanced perspective of care delivery mechanisms employed, such as daily oxygen method utilization.Copyright © 2023 by Daedalus Enterprises.

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