{"id":7621,"date":"2020-06-18T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:43:31","slug":"measure-what-matters-counts-of-hospitalized-patients-are-a-better-metric-for-health-system-capacity-planning-for-a-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/18\/measure-what-matters-counts-of-hospitalized-patients-are-a-better-metric-for-health-system-capacity-planning-for-a-reopening\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure What Matters: Counts of Hospitalized Patients Are a Better Metric for Health System Capacity Planning for a Reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kashyap<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">used\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">data from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Stanford\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">University medical\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">facilities between March 2 and April 11, 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to measure to the impact of Shelter-In-Place<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0orders<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0on hospital utilization. They<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">observed a marked slowdown in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hospitalization rate within ten days of Shelter-In-Place<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">orders<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and a shift toward younger ages among COVID-19 patients. The authors discuss that current published prediction models use case counts that do not account for the demographic distributions of COVID-19 patients and that age stratified\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">local hospitalization rates\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">could improve<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0model<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">accura<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cy to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">estimate the resource burden on health systems.<\/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\">Kashyap<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (June 17, 2020). Measure What Matters: Counts of Hospitalized Patients Are a Better Metric for Health System Capacity Planning for a Reopening. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jamia\/ocaa076\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jamia\/ocaa076<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>Kashyap\u00a0et al.\u00a0used\u00a0data from\u00a0Stanford\u00a0University medical\u00a0facilities between March 2 and April 11, 2020\u00a0to measure to the impact of Shelter-In-Place\u00a0orders\u00a0on hospital utilization. They\u00a0observed a marked slowdown in\u00a0the\u00a0hospitalization rate within ten days of Shelter-In-Place\u00a0orders\u00a0and a shift toward younger ages among COVID-19 patients. The authors discuss that current published prediction models use case counts that do not account for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/18\/measure-what-matters-counts-of-hospitalized-patients-are-a-better-metric-for-health-system-capacity-planning-for-a-reopening\/\">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":[22],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","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=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7622,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions\/7622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}