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  • Epidemiology
  • Intensive care medicine

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated novel hospital protocols for intensive care.
  • Hospitals managed both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients concurrently.
  • Understanding health spillover effects is crucial for effective policy interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a nonparametric model for assessing health spillover effects.
  • To examine cross-patient spillover effects in intensive care units (ICUs) during the pandemic.
  • To evaluate policy interventions aimed at mitigating negative spillover effects.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized double/debiased machine learning for model estimation.
  • Employed data from 74 hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Analyzed health outcomes (mortality, length of stay) for non-COVID-19 patients.

Main Results:

  • Simultaneous care for COVID-19 patients increased mortality rates and length of stay for non-COVID-19 ICU patients.
  • Controlling for confounders, significant negative spillover effects were observed.
  • Policy simulations indicated increased ICU beds could mitigate morbidity spillover but not mortality spillover.

Conclusions:

  • Hospital resource allocation during pandemics can lead to adverse health outcomes for non-pandemic patients.
  • While increasing ICU beds may help with some negative effects, it is not a comprehensive solution for mortality spillover.
  • Further research into resource management and patient care strategies during public health crises is warranted.