Fierce Health Technology October 19, 2020
While the overall number of admissions in U.S. hospitals has rebounded since historic lows experienced early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, it hasn’t been enough to make up for the overall loss in business, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.
Overall, total hospital admissions dropped as low as 69% of predicted levels during the second week of April as stay-at-home orders required elective surgeries to be canceled, according to electronic medical record data from the Epic Health Research Network.
The analysis looked at inpatient hospital admission volume from 27 healthcare organizations in the U.S. from the beginning of 2018 through Aug. 8, 2020. The data, which involved 22 million patients who were either discharged or died as...
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