{"id":1827,"date":"2020-10-27T12:26:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2020-10-28T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:27:30","slug":"hospitalizations-for-chronic-disease-and-acute-conditions-in-the-time-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/27\/hospitalizations-for-chronic-disease-and-acute-conditions-in-the-time-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitalizations for Chronic Disease and Acute Conditions in the Time of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective study of admissions to 4 hospitals in a New York health system found a substantial decrease in non-COVID-19 hospitalizations across a range of diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have been due in part to patient avoidance of emergency care for fear of COVID-19. Compared to baseline data from 2018 and 2019, hospitalization rates during the early pandemic (March 1 &#8211; March 21) were similar to baseline, decreased during the peak period (March 22-April 11), then slightly increased during the late period (April 12 to May 9). Admission diagnoses that had a significant decline during the peak COVID-19 period include septicemia, heart failure, and myocardial infarction.<\/p>\n<p><i>Blecker et al. (Oct 26, 2020). Hospitalizations for Chronic Disease and Acute Conditions in the Time of COVID-19. JAMA Internal Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3978\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3978<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective study of admissions to 4 hospitals in a New York health system found a substantial decrease in non-COVID-19 hospitalizations across a range of diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have been due in part to patient avoidance of emergency care for fear of COVID-19. Compared to baseline data from 2018 and 2019,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/27\/hospitalizations-for-chronic-disease-and-acute-conditions-in-the-time-of-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}