Estimated surge in hospital and intensive care admission because of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada: a mathematical …

S Mishra, L Wang, H Ma, KCY Yiu… - … Open Access Journal, 2020 - cmajopen.ca
Background: In pandemics, local hospitals need to anticipate a surge in health care needs.
We examined the modelled surge because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Estimation of COVID-19–induced depletion of hospital resources in Ontario, Canada

K Barrett, YA Khan, S Mac, R Ximenes, DMJ Naimark… - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
BACKGROUND: The global spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues in
several jurisdictions, causing substantial strain to health care systems. The purpose of our …

Planning for the aftershocks: a model of post-acute care needs for hospitalized COVID-19 patients

M Maloney, R Morley, R Checketts, P Weir, D Barfuss… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Since its emergence in late 2019, COVID-19 has caused significant global morbidity and
mortality, overwhelming health systems. Considerable attention has been paid to the burden …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting hospital resource use during COVID-19 surges: a simple but flexible discretely integrated condition event simulation of individual patient-hospital …

JJ Caro, J Möller, V Santhirapala, H Gill, J Johnston… - Value in Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives To assist with planning hospital resources, including critical care (CC) beds, for
managing patients with COVID-19. Methods An individual simulation was implemented in …

Locally informed modeling to predict hospital and intensive care unit capacity during the COVID-19 epidemic

D Fort, L Seoane, GD Unis… - Ochsner Journal, 2020 - ochsnerjournal.org
Background: In the early phases of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic,
health system leaders faced the urgent task of translating the unknown into forecasting …

Navigating hospitals safely through the COVID-19 epidemic tide: predicting case load for adjusting bed capacity

T Donker, FM Bürkin, M Wolkewitz… - Infection Control & …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Background: The pressures exerted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
pose an unprecedented demand on healthcare services. Hospitals become rapidly …

[HTML][HTML] Hospital planning for contingency and crisis conditions: crisis standards of care lessons from COVID-19

JL Hick, D Hanfling, M Wynia - … journal on quality and patient safety, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
COVID-19 placed unprecedented strain on the US health care system and revealed critical
deficits in resources and planning. Beginning with a shortage of adequate personal …

[HTML][HTML] Mortality trends and length of stays among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Ontario and Québec (Canada): a population-based cohort study of the first …

Y Xia, H Ma, DL Buckeridge, M Brisson… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Epidemics of COVID-19 strained hospital resources. We describe temporal
trends in mortality risk and length of stays in hospital and intensive care units (ICUs) among …

Hospitalization forecast to inform COVID-19 pandemic planning and resource allocation using mathematical models

PE Wikman-Jorgensen, A Ruiz, V Giner-Galvañ… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous pressure on hospital resources
around the world. Forecasting demand for healthcare services is important generally, but …

Forecasting the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital demand and deaths for the USA and European Economic Area countries

IHME COVID-19 Health Service Utilization Forecasting … - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Background Hospitals need to plan for the surge in demand in each state or region in the
United States and the European Economic Area (EEA) due to the COVID-19 pandemic …