{"id":3331,"date":"2021-01-20T13:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:53:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:53:17","slug":"association-of-intensive-care-unit-patient-load-and-demand-with-mortality-rates-in-us-department-of-veterans-affairs-hospitals-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/20\/association-of-intensive-care-unit-patient-load-and-demand-with-mortality-rates-in-us-department-of-veterans-affairs-hospitals-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of Intensive Care Unit Patient Load and Demand With Mortality Rates in US Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Periods of increased ICU demand were associated with increased COVID-19 mortality in a cohort of 8,516 patients admitted to Veteran\u2019s hospitals. Compared to periods of low ICU demand (&lt;25%), the adjusted hazard ratio for all-cause mortality was 0.99 for patients treated when COVID-19 ICU demand was 25%-50%, 1.19 when demand was 50%-75%, and 1.94 when demand was 75%-100%. Mortality varied over time, with higher percentages of patients dying in March 2020 (23%) and April (25%), compared to May (16%), June (14%), July (13%), and August (13%). No association between COVID-19 ICU demand and mortality was observed for patients with COVID-19 who were not in the ICU.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Bravata et al. (Jan 19, 2021). Association of Intensive Care Unit Patient Load and Demand With Mortality Rates in US Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.34266\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.34266<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Periods of increased ICU demand were associated with increased COVID-19 mortality in a cohort of 8,516 patients admitted to Veteran\u2019s hospitals. Compared to periods of low ICU demand (&lt;25%), the adjusted hazard ratio for all-cause mortality was 0.99 for patients treated when COVID-19 ICU demand was 25%-50%, 1.19 when demand was 50%-75%, and 1.94 when&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/20\/association-of-intensive-care-unit-patient-load-and-demand-with-mortality-rates-in-us-department-of-veterans-affairs-hospitals-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">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":[54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","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=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}