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ArticleJournal of medical virology2022

Effect of mortality from COVID-19 on inpatient outcomes.

Matthew C Phillips, Laura Sarff, Josh Banerjee, Chase Coffey, Paul Holtom, Steve Meurer, Noah Wald-Dickler, Brad Spellberg

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Article in Journal of medical virology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Early versus late tracheostomy in critically ill COVID-19 patients.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  2. Impact of Dementia in Colorectal Cancer Patients: United States Population-Based Cohort Study.The Korean journal of gastroenterology = Taehan Sohwagi Hakhoe chi · 2024
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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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew C PhillipsLos Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC + USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9329-5455
Laura SarffLos Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC + USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Josh BanerjeeLos Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC + USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Chase CoffeyLos Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC + USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Paul HoltomLos Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC + USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Steve MeurerVizient, Inc., Irving, Texas, USA.
Noah Wald-DicklerLos Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC + USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Brad SpellbergLos Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC + USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
University of Southern California · USVi Technology (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When hospitals first encountered coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there was a dearth of therapeutic options and nearly 1 in 3 patients died from the disease. By the summer of 2020, as deaths from the disease declined nationally, multiple single-center studies began to report declining mortality of patients with COVID-19. To evaluate the effect of COVID-19 on hospital-based mortality, we searched the Vizient Clinical Data Base for outcomes data from approximately 600 participating hospitals, including 130 academic medical centers, from January 2017 through December 2020. More than 32 million hospital admissions were included in the analysis. After an initial spike, mortality from COVID-19 declined in all regions of the country to under 10% by June 2020 and remained constant for the remainder of the year. Despite this, inpatient, all-cause mortality has increased since the beginning of the pandemic, even those without respiratory failure. Inpatient mortality has particularly increased in elderly patients and in those requiring intubation for respiratory failure. Since June 2020, COVID-19 kills one in every 10 patients admitted to the hospital with this diagnosis. The addition of this new disease has raised overall hospital mortality especially those who require intubation for respiratory failure.

Indexed as

COVID-19HospitalizationHospital MortalityHumansInpatientsIntubationRespiration, ArtificialRespiratory InsufficiencySARS-CoV-2COVID-19hospitalmortalitySARS-CoV-2United States

Identifiers

PMID34516010
PMCPMC8662145
OpenAlexW3200622507

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