Length of Stay in ICU of Covid-19 Patients in England, March - May 2020

Journal article

The skew of the predicted LoS suggests that a mean LoS, as compared with median, might be better suited as a measure used to assess and plan ICU beds capacity. This is important for the ongoing second and any future waves of Covid-19 cases and potential pressure on the ICU resources. Also, changes in the ICU admission policy are likely to be confounded with improvements in clinical knowledge of Covid-19.

Authors: Shryane, N; Pampaka, M; Aparicio-Castro, A; Ahmad, S; Elliot, MJ

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Swansea University
• Journal: International Journal of Population Data Science
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1411-1411
• Publication date: 2021-03-03
• DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v5i4.1411
• EISSN: 2399-4908
• ISSN: 2399-4908
• Language: English
• Keywords: Infectious disease (medical specialty); Intensive care medicine; Pediatrics; Emergency medicine; Retrospective cohort study; Pandemic; Intensive care; Censoring (clinical trials); Internal medicine; Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Medicine; Disease