Predisposing factors for admission to intensive care units of patients with COVID-19 infection-Results of the German nationwide inpatient sample

• Main Authors: Karsten Keller (Author), Ioannis T. Farmakis (Author), Luca Valerio (Author), Sebastian Koelmel (Author), Johannes Wild (Author), Stefano Barco (Author), Frank P. Schmidt (Author), Christine Espinola-Klein (Author), Stavros Konstantinides (Author), Thomas Münzel (Author), Ingo Sagoschen (Author), Lukas Hobohm (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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BackgroundIntensive care units (ICU) capacities are one of the most critical determinants in health-care management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we aimed to analyze the ICU-admission and case-fatality rate as well as characteristics and outcomes of patient admitted to ICU in order to identif...