儿童医院在2022年病毒性呼吸道突变期间的资源利用情况
Kenneth A Michelson1, Sriram Ramgopal1, Larry K Kociolek2
1Divisions of Emergency Medicine.
Pediatrics
|June 13, 2024
概括
在2022年,病毒性呼吸季节的儿科医院体积峰值与前几年相似,但一半的医院经历了创纪录的高急诊室 (ED) 和住院体积,表明显著的压力.
科学领域:
- 儿科卫生保健流行病学
- 病毒性呼吸道疾病监测监测
- 医院资源的利用情况.
背景情况:
- 2022年同时发生的病毒性呼吸道流行病在理解它们的全部影响方面提出了挑战.
- 关于这些流行病的范围及其对儿童医院的影响的先前数据有限.
- 准确的评估对于在儿科卫生保健机构有效的未来激增规划至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了比较2022年病毒呼吸季的流行病学和资源利用情况,与大流行前的季节.
- 分析急诊室 (ED),住院患者和重症监护室 (ICU) 容量的趋势.
- 为儿童医院未来的急剧规划策略提供信息.
主要方法:
- 从2017年10月到2023年3月,在38家美国儿童医院进行了一项连续的横截面研究.
- 每天收集ED,住院和ICU体积,手术和病毒检测的数据.
- 用层次Poisson模型分析了ED复诊和30天再入院的比例.
主要成果:
- 2022年ED,住院患者和ICU的峰值量与之前的峰值季节没有显著差异.
- 然而,38家医院中的18家在2022赛季记录了其最高的ED和住院患者数量.
- 2022赛季的时间更长,病毒检测增加了75%,手术减少了15%,再访/再录取率最低.
结论:
- 虽然总体峰值数量相当,但2022年的病毒季节给近一半的儿童医院带来了前所未有的压力.
- 延长的持续时间和高数量表明需要修订激增能力评估.
- 进一步的研究对这些激增如何影响患者流动,转移物流和结果至关重要,特别是由于区域化导致儿科能力下降.
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