Period of hospitalization and mortality in transferred versus non-transferred COVID-19 patients: results from Germany

COVID-19 was a challenge for health-care systems worldwide, causing large numbers of hospitalizations and inter-hospital transfers. We studied whether transfer, as well as its reason, was associated with the duration of hospitalization in non-ICU and ICU patients. For this purpose, all patients hosp...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2024-03, Vol.14 (1), p.7338-7338, Article 7338
Main Authors: Suski, Pascal, Jörres, Rudolf A., Engelhardt, Sebastian, Kahnert, Kathrin, Lenherr, Katharina, Bauer, Andreas, Budweiser, Stephan
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Language:English
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COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - therapy
Health care
Hospital Mortality
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Mortality
multidisciplinary
Patient Transfer
Patients
Regression Analysis
Retrospective Studies
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
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Summary:COVID-19 was a challenge for health-care systems worldwide, causing large numbers of hospitalizations and inter-hospital transfers. We studied whether transfer, as well as its reason, was associated with the duration of hospitalization in non-ICU and ICU patients. For this purpose, all patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 between August 1st and December 31st, 2021, in a network of hospitals in Southern Germany were comprehensively characterized regarding their clinical course, therapy, complications, transfers, reasons for transfer, involved levels of care, total period of hospitalization and in-hospital mortality, using univariate and multiple regression analyses. While mortality was not significantly associated with transfer, the period of hospitalization was. In non-ICU patients ( n  = 545), median (quartiles) time was 7.0 (4.0–11.0) in non-transferred ( n  = 458) and 18.0 (11.0–29.0) days in transferred ( n  = 87) patients ( p  
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-57272-y