Effects of COVID-19 on Hospital Utilization Trends

With the onset of COVID-19, hospitals statewide saw a sharp drop in inpatient discharges, emergency department utilization, and ambulatory surgeries. These datasets contain monthly counts of encounters and in-hospital mortalities in those three settings and are also broken down by the following patient categories: asthma, cancer, cardiac arrest, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), COVID-19, diabetes, homeless, hypertension, obesity, pneumonia, respiratory arrest/failure, sepsis, and stroke.

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notes With the onset of COVID-19, hospitals statewide saw a sharp drop in inpatient discharges, emergency department utilization, and ambulatory surgeries. These datasets contain monthly counts of encounters and in-hospital mortalities in those three settings and are also broken down by the following patient categories: asthma, cancer, cardiac arrest, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), COVID-19, diabetes, homeless, hypertension, obesity, pneumonia, respiratory arrest/failure, sepsis, and stroke.
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title Effects of COVID-19 on Hospital Utilization Trends