Sepsis among patients hospitalized with COVID-19
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- PHC4 COVID-19 analyses
- Contributor(s):
- Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Harrisburg, PA] : Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, April 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- COVID-19 -- complications Hospitalization -- statistics & numerical data Sepsis -- epidemiology Pennsylvania United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- This research brief focuses on patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who also had a diagnosis of sepsis. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition characterized by a system-wide inflammatory response to infection that can worsen to acute organ dysfunction. This research brief examines Pennsylvania residents and non-residents of all ages who were hospitalized with COVID-19 and discharged from a Pennsylvania acute care hospital from March through September 2020. As these hospitalizations occurred during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the results form a basis for future analysis and comparison as subsequent data becomes available. The results in this report were not adjusted for age or other patient characteristics to avoid masking important sociodemographic differences.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (2 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918402087006676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918402087006676