August 28, 2020

Return Hospital Admissions Among 1419 Covid‐19 Patients Discharged from Five US Emergency Departments

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

Keywords (Tags): health care setting

• A retrospective cohort study of 1,419 patients with COVID-19 who were seen in emergency departments and discharged found that 66 (5%) returned to a hospital within 72 hours and were admitted. Those age > 60 years were more likely to experience a return hospital admission compared to those age 18-39 (aOR=4.6). Hypoxia (aOR=2.9), presentation with fever (aOR=2.4), and abnormal chest radiography (aOR=2.4) were also associated with return hospital admission.

Kilaru et al. (Aug 27, 2020). Return Hospital Admissions Among 1419 Covid‐19 Patients Discharged from Five US Emergency Departments. Academic Emergency Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.14117