The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions for trauma and acute care surgery

LT DiFazio, T Curran, JW Bilaniuk… - The American …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… guidelines regarding surgical care. In the trauma and acute care surgery setting, we closely
followed the ACS guidance entitled “Maintaining trauma center access and care during the …

Appropriateness of patient transfer from a nursing home to an acutecare hospital: A study of emergency room visits and hospital admissions

H Bergman, AM Carfield - Journal of the American Geriatrics …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
… One was the admission policy of the acute care hospital. The decision and diagnosis of
the physician in the acute-care hospital, and not the judgment of the nursing home physician, …

Avoiding hospital admission through provision of hospital care at home: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

S Shepperd, H Doll, RM Angus, MJ Clarke, S Iliffe… - Cmaj, 2009 - Can Med Assoc
… We included randomized controlled trials that evaluated a service providing an alternative
to admission to an acute care hospital. We excluded trials in which the program did not offer a …

Effectiveness of acute geriatric unit care using acute care for elders components: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

MT Fox, M Persaud, I Maimets, K O'Brien… - Journal of the …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… : transfers, toileting, dressing, eating, or bathing,10 as measured as the Barthel Index or
the Katz ADL scale, 2 weeks before hospital admission or upon hospital admission. Length of …

Hospital admission rates, length of stay, and in-hospital mortality for common acute care conditions in COVID-19 vs. pre-COVID-19 era

AA Butt, AB Kartha, NA Masoodi, AM Azad, NA Asaad… - Public Health, 2020 - Elsevier
acute care hospital admissions, with a significant decline in admissions due to seven out of
eight acute care … length of stay but not associated with a change in in-hospital mortality rate. …

Trends in emergency department visits and admission rates among US acute care hospitals

MP Lin, O Baker, LD Richardson… - JAMA internal …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
… We describe trends in ED visits and admission rates among US acute care hospitals from …
to follow-up care, likely reducing hospitalizations. Increases in non-ED admissions are also …

Acute hospital admissions among nursing home residents: a population-based observational study

B Graverholt, T Riise, G Jamtvedt, AH Ranhoff… - BMC health services …, 2011 - Springer
… We studied acute hospital admissions rates among elderly people over two years in a well-…
Our findings support previous literature that transfers to hospital for acute care is common …

Long-term acute care hospital utilization after critical illness

JM Kahn, NM Benson, D Appleby, SS Carson… - Jama, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
… For ICU admissions that did not result in a long-term acute care transfer, we used the
MedPAR discharge location field to determine the patient's discharge status, excluding patients …

[PDF][PDF] Changes in hospital admissions for urgent conditions during COVID-19 pandemic

AS Oseran, D Nash, C Kim, S Moisuk… - … Manag Care, 2020 - ajmc.s3.amazonaws.com
… We used billing data from 8 acute care hospitals within a major integrated health system.
We selected medical conditions for which incidence should not be affected by COVID-19. We …

The hospital admissions study in England: are there alternatives to emergency hospital admission?

J Coast, A Inglis, K Morgan, S Gray… - … of Epidemiology & …, 1995 - jech.bmj.com
acute hospital admission was the chosen option, only if both GP's had chosen the option of
acute care. (2… potential it was assumed that acute hospital admission was the chosen option if …