Critical care outcomes from COVID‐19: patients, interventions, healthcare systems and the need for core datasets

Abstract

occurring outside hospital and six in seven hospital deaths occurring on the wards [2]. The average age of patients admitted to ICU in the UK is 10 years lower than for all hospitalised patients and more than 20 years younger than patients who have died from COVID-19: 61 vs. 73 vs. 83 y [3-5]. Despite only a minority of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 being admitted to ICU, there has been an enormous focus on critical care during the pandemic and this is appropriate.

Scaling-up Evidence-based Interventions for Communities of Color With Marked Health Disparities

“…The lessons learned from COVID-19 exposed rigid health systems which cost lives as recalcitrant to incorporation of emerging EBI because of the inflexible of the existing infrastructure and not necessary because of the staff. In a time of crisis, inflexible systems have significant worse outcomes 35…”