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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