Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33309523›Full record

ReviewChest2021

Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals Extend ICU Capacity for COVID-19 Response and Recovery.

Antony M Grigonis, Kusum S Mathews, Wande O Benka-Coker, Amanda M Dawson, Samuel I Hammerman

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Review in Chest, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Antony M GrigonisSelect Medical, Mechanicsburg, PA. Electronic address: agrigonis@selectmedical.com.
Kusum S MathewsDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Wande O Benka-CokerSelect Medical, Mechanicsburg, PA.
Amanda M DawsonSelect Medical, Mechanicsburg, PA.
Samuel I HammermanSelect Medical, Mechanicsburg, PA; Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA.

Funding

Optimizing ED to ICU triage decisions for critically ill patients in respiratory distressK23HL130648 · NHLBI · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI MATHEWS, KUSUM SARA · 2016 to 2021
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NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL130648
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented novel challenges for the entire health-care continuum, requiring transformative changes to hospital and post-acute care, including clinical, administrative, and physical modifications to current standards of operations. Innovative use and adaptation of long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) can safely and effectively care for patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A framework for the rapid changes, including increasing collaboration with external health-care organizations, creating new methods for enhanced communication, and modifying processes focused on patient safety and clinical outcomes, is described for a network of 94 LTACHs. When managed and modified correctly, LTACHs can play a vital role in managing the national health-care pandemic crisis.

Indexed as

Intensive Care UnitsLong-Term CareCOVID-19Critical CareDuration of TherapyHumansOrganizational InnovationSARS-CoV-2critical carehealth-care utilizationmechanical ventilation

Identifiers

PMID33309523
PMCPMC7832791

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