TITLE:
Evaluating Hospital Utilization Late in the Epidemic
AUTHORS:
Ronald Lagoe, Shelly Littau
KEYWORDS:
Hospitals, Infectious Diseases, Hospitalization
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.11 No.7,
July
20,
2022
ABSTRACT: This study evaluated present and future impact of the coronavirus on hospitalization as the virus winds down in the metropolitan area of Syracuse, New York. The study compared adult medicine and adult surgery discharges between January-May 2019 and 2022. The data indicated that 69 percent of the reduction in medical-surgical discharges that occurred since 2019 was offset during 2022. The remaining 31 percent remained at levels experienced in 2020 and 2021. The study clearly demonstrated that medical and surgical discharges increased significantly since 2019. An important question is whether these will continue or if they will level off.