This study aims to perform a retrospective cohort study of administrative health data tounderstand how care delivery performance varies across US hospitals post-COVID-19pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic performance. We also hope to identify which factorscontribute to performance changes.
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Other: COVID-19 Surge
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on hospital care delivery
The study cohort will include one random encounter per patient for all adult (age
≥18years) encounters. All inpatients with the Premier healthcare database (PINC-AI) and
those patients who were admitted under observation status and expired in the hospital or
those who presented acutely to the emergency department and died in the emergency
department will be considered as inpatients for the purpose of this study as per prior
precedence in including such patients.
All pediatric inpatients, skilled nursing facilities inpatients, long term acute care
inpatients, rehabilitation facility inpatients, psychiatric inpatients, hospice
inpatients, chemical dependency unit inpatients and deceased organ donor inpatients are
excluded after applying encounter level exclusion criteria from this inpatient cohort.
Application of this encounter level exclusion will also preferentially exclude any
children hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, acute long term care facilities,
psychiatry hospitals, inpatient hospices and chemical dependency units.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Maniraj Neupane, MD, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Grand Island Regional Medical Center