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Sixty-Day Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19

• onecommentman 6y ago
  “ Within 60 days of discharge, 189 patients (15.1% of hospital survivors) were rehospitalized.” As contrasted to return visits of roughly 10% of general ED cases https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196064410001460 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01960... “ On return visit, 40.2% of patients were treated and discharged from the ED, 36.2% were treated in the ED and admitted, 14.4% were treated in the ED and then the ED observation unit and discharged home, 12.3% were directly admitted to the hospital, and 2.5% were treated in the ED and then the ED observation unit and admitted.” Note that COVID hospitalization patients skew old... Would be nice to find a similar article for pneumonia patients...