{"id":7067,"date":"2020-05-22T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T23:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:29:30","slug":"characterization-of-patients-who-return-to-hospital-following-discharge-from-hospitalization-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/22\/characterization-of-patients-who-return-to-hospital-following-discharge-from-hospitalization-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Characterization of Patients Who Return to Hospital Following Discharge from Hospitalization For COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"39\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">pre-print, not peer reviewed<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A retrospective cohort\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of 2,864 COVID-19 patients discharged from five New York City hospitals\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found 103 (3.6%) returned for emerge<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ncy care after a median of 4.5 d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ays, with 56 requiring re<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">admission<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In 50% of cases t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he reason for return was respiratory distress<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"39\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">P<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">atients who returned had a higher burden of COPD and hypertension,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had a shorter duration of index hospitalization, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were less likely to require intensive care<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0or to have received anticoagulation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">during index hospitalization<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among those readmitted, 5.8% required intensive care, and 3.6% died.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Somani et al. 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Characterization of Patients Who Return to Hospital Following Discharge from Hospitalization For COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 21 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.17.20104604\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.17.20104604<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0A retrospective cohort\u00a0of 2,864 COVID-19 patients discharged from five New York City hospitals\u00a0found 103 (3.6%) returned for emergency care after a median of 4.5 days, with 56 requiring re&#8211;admission.\u00a0In 50% of cases the reason for return was respiratory distress.\u00a0\u00a0 Patients who returned had a higher burden of COPD and hypertension,\u00a0had a shorter&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/22\/characterization-of-patients-who-return-to-hospital-following-discharge-from-hospitalization-for-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7068,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}