Changing trends of patient characteristics and treatment pathways during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional analysis of 72,459 inpatient cases from the German Helios database

• Main Authors: Sebastian König (Author), Sven Hohenstein (Author), Vincent Pellissier (Author), Johannes Leiner (Author), Gerhard Hindricks (Author), Irit Nachtigall (Author), Ralf Kuhlen (Author), Andreas Bollmann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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BackgroundThis study compared patient profiles and clinical courses of SARS-CoV-2 infected inpatients over different pandemic periods.MethodsIn a retrospective cross-sectional analysis, we examined administrative data of German Helios hospitals using ICD-10-codes at discharge. Inpatient cases with S...