Association between hospital internal medicine physician workforce and patient admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

• Main Authors: Seiji Hamada (Author), Takuhiro Moromizato (Author), Masashi Narita (Author), Kiyosu Taniguchi (Author), Kenji Shibuya (Author), Yasuharu Tokuda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Hospital physician workforce in Japan is the lowest among developed countries. Many patients with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with high risk of mortality could not be hospitalized during case surges in Japan and only about 5% of total acute care beds were used as CO...