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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on In-Hospital Outcomes among Internal Medicine Departments: A Double-Center Retrospective Study.

Maurizio Di Marco, Nicoletta Miano, Simona Marchisello, Giuseppe Coppolino, Giuseppe L'Episcopo, Sabrina Scilletta, Concetta Spichetti, Serena Torre, Roberto Scicali, Luca Zanoli and 5 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maurizio Di MarcoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9021-6101
Nicoletta MianoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0429-9807
Simona MarchiselloDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5212-1846
Giuseppe CoppolinoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.
Giuseppe L'EpiscopoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.
Sabrina ScillettaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0009-0001-9061-0368
Concetta SpichettiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.
Serena TorreDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.
Roberto ScicaliDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7023-3649
Luca ZanoliDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1678-3778
Agostino GaudioDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9958-9606
Pietro CastellinoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.
Salvatore PiroDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1781-0902
Francesco PurrelloDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.
Antonino Di PinoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, 95122 Catania, Italy.
University of Catania · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) emergency led to rearrangements of healthcare systems with a significant impact on those internal medicine departments that had not been converted to COVID-19 wards. A reduced number of departments, indeed, had to cope with the same number of patients along with a lack of management of patients' chronic diseases. We conducted a retrospective study aimed at examiningthe consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on internal medicine departments that were not directly managing COVID-19 patients. Data from 619 patients were collected: 247 subjects hospitalized in 2019 (pre-COVID-19 era), 178 in 2020 (COVID-19 outbreak era) and 194 in 2021 (COVID-19 ongoing era). We found that in 2020 in-hospital mortality was significantly higher than in 2019 (17.4% vs. 5.3%,

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COVID-19in-hospital mortalityin-hospital outcomesinternal medicine departmentslength of in-hospital staysepsis

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