{"id":7173,"date":"2021-03-19T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T00:51:45","slug":"variation-in-covid-19-mortality-across-117-us-hospitals-in-high-and-low-burden-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/19\/variation-in-covid-19-mortality-across-117-us-hospitals-in-high-and-low-burden-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Variation in COVID-19 Mortality Across 117 US Hospitals in High- and Low-Burden Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patients admitted to the most COVID-19 burdened hospitals had increased mortality compared to non-burdened hospitals, according to an analysis of patient admission data (n=14,226 patients) from an administrative database in April 2020. As of June 2020, 21% of all patients admitted with a COVID-19 diagnosis had died, and 1% remained hospitalized. At the hospital level, the observed mortality ranged from 0% to 44% (23% in the highest burden quintile). After adjustment for age, sex and comorbidities, the odds of in-hospital death in the most burdened hospitals was 1.5-times that of hospitals in the bottom four quintiles of burden.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Block et al.\u00a0(Mar 2021). Variation in COVID-19 Mortality Across 117 US Hospitals in High- and Low-Burden Settings. Journal of Hospital Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33734977\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33734977<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients admitted to the most COVID-19 burdened hospitals had increased mortality compared to non-burdened hospitals, according to an analysis of patient admission data (n=14,226 patients) from an administrative database in April 2020. As of June 2020, 21% of all patients admitted with a COVID-19 diagnosis had died, and 1% remained hospitalized. At the hospital level,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/19\/variation-in-covid-19-mortality-across-117-us-hospitals-in-high-and-low-burden-settings\/\">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":[54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-7173","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\/7173","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=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7174,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}