Empirical Assessment of U.S. Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis Standards of Care Guidelines.

ABSTRACT: To establish the feasibility of empirically testing crisis standards of care guidelines.

Design

Retrospective single-center study.

Setting

ICUs at a large academic medical center in the United States.

Subjects

Adult, critically ill patients admitted to ICU, with 27 patients admitted for acute respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease 2019 and 37 patients admitted for diagnoses other than coronavirus disease 2019.

Interventions

Review of electronic health record.

Measurements and main results

Many U.S. states released crisis standards of care guidelines with algorithms to allocate scarce healthcare resources during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. We compared state guidelines that represent different approaches to incorporating disease severity

SUBMITTER: Bharadwaj M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8284767 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature