Medical and statistical characteristics of emergency hospital patients during the covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Introduction. Pandemic of the new coronavirus infection 2019–2021. has become a serious test of the country’s health care system, mobilizing all possible resources of the health care system.

The purpose of the study: a medical and statistical analysis of the contingent of patients in emergency hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Materials and methods. Data from federal state statistics (sources — FSN No. 14 and 30, 2019–2021) of 2 multidisciplinary hospitals operating in emergency hospitals (24/7/365) with fundamental structural and functional features related to the availability of beds for patients with a new coronavirus infection. Regulatory, statistical and analytical methods were used.

Study results. The main factor contributing to the differences in the organization of the work of ambulance hospitals was the factor of their re-profiling to receive infectious patients — the deployment of beds for patients with COVID-19, the second — the assignment of additional volumes of specialized non-infectious medical care to non-infectious hospitals for emergency hospitalization, change routing schemes in the implementation of medical evacuation of patients to specialized hospitals. These factors determined the dynamics of the patient population in these beds. The reduction (termination) of planned hospitalization, sanitary and epidemiological restrictions and quarantine measures were also significant.