Increased national mortality in acute myocardial infarction hospitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic

Autor:	Hafeez Shaka, Ayodeji I. Ilelaboye, Sean DeAngelo, Edwin Gwira-Tamattey, Ufuk Vardar
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	General Medicine Original Research: Cardiology and Pulmonology
Zdroj:	Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)
ISSN:	1525-3252 0899-8280
Popis:	This retrospective study describes the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on epidemiologic trends and highlights disparities in outcomes among acute myocardial infarction (AMI) hospitalizations. The National Inpatient Sample database from 2016 to 2020 was searched for hospitalizations of adult patients with AMI as a principal diagnosis using Clinical Classifications Software Refined codes. The admission rate for each calendar year was obtained as admission per 1000 adults hospitalized. The primary outcome was a comparison of inpatient mortality, and the secondary outcomes were the length of hospital stay and total hospital charge between prepandemic and pandemic years. During the pandemic (2020), the admission rate for AMI was 31.1 admissions per 1000 adults hospitalized compared to 33.4 admissions in 2019 (prepandemic) (P
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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