{"id":3811,"date":"2021-02-09T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:42:03","slug":"health-outcomes-and-economic-burden-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/09\/health-outcomes-and-economic-burden-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Outcomes and Economic Burden of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The overall median charges for hospitalization due to COVID-19 in the United States was $43,986 per hospitalization, while the overall median cost incurred by hospitals was $12,046. The analysis utilized the COVID-19 data from the Premiere Healthcare Database to identify 170,000 hospitalizations from April to October 2020, representing approximately 20% of all hospitalizations in the US. The median age of hospitalized patients was 63 years, 51% were male, 22% were admitted to the ICU, 17% received invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), the median hospital length-of-stay (LOS) was 5 days, and in-hospital mortality was 14%. Median hospital charges and costs were higher for patients with longer LOS, in older age groups, those requiring ICU or IMV, and those with Medicare.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Di Fusco et al. (Feb 8, 2021). Health Outcomes and Economic Burden of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in the United States. Journal of Medical Economics. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33555956\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33555956<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overall median charges for hospitalization due to COVID-19 in the United States was $43,986 per hospitalization, while the overall median cost incurred by hospitals was $12,046. The analysis utilized the COVID-19 data from the Premiere Healthcare Database to identify 170,000 hospitalizations from April to October 2020, representing approximately 20% of all hospitalizations in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/09\/health-outcomes-and-economic-burden-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-the-united-states\/\">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":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}