Healthcare Encounter and Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Children's Hospitals.
J Hosp Med
; 16(4): 223-226, 2021 04.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33734985
ABSTRACT
Children's hospitals responded to COVID-19 by limiting nonurgent healthcare encounters, conserving personal protective equipment, and restructuring care processes to mitigate viral spread. We assessed year-over-year trends in healthcare encounters and hospital charges across US children's hospitals before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We performed a retrospective analysis, comparing healthcare encounters and inflation-adjusted charges from 26 tertiary children's hospitals reporting to the PROSPECT database from February 1 to June 30 in 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic) and 2020 (during the COVID-19 pandemic). All children's hospitals experienced similar trends in healthcare encounters and charges during the study period. Inpatient bed-days, emergency department visits, and surgeries were lower by a median 36%, 65%, and 77%, respectively, per hospital by the week of April 15 (the nadir) in 2020 compared with 2019. Across the study period in 2020, children's hospitals experienced a median decrease of $276 million in charges.
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Temas:
ECOS
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Aspectos_gerais
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Financiamentos_gastos
Bases de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Custos de Cuidados de Saúde
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Atenção à Saúde
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COVID-19
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Hospitais Pediátricos
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Pacientes Internados
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
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Observational_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Child
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Hosp Med
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article