PSA: hospitalizations and admissions are fundamentally different metrics— they're not comparable. Example:
A hospital reports 100 COVID-19 hospitalizations on consecutive days. That could mean:
🔸0 admissions - 0 discharged
🔸100 admissions - 100 discharged
🔸any combo netting 0
A hospital reports 100 COVID-19 hospitalizations on consecutive days. That could mean:
🔸0 admissions - 0 discharged
🔸100 admissions - 100 discharged
🔸any combo netting 0
^^That's just scratching the surface. There are #COVID19 admissions that may not count toward daily hospitalizations— like short stays lasting <24 hrs
From a patient's POV: they were hospitalized
From a reporting standpoint: daily hospitalization totals may not reflect the stay
From a patient's POV: they were hospitalized
From a reporting standpoint: daily hospitalization totals may not reflect the stay
^^Yet another nuance: the patient's condition upon hospital discharged. Are they deceased? Were they transferred to another hospital? Were they transferred to a subacute or rehabilitation hospital? Or are they able to go back to their daily routine?
^^Yet another nuance, this one is specifically concerning patients hospitalized *with* COVID-19: when/where/how did they get infected? Did they get it in the hospital? If so, then that's a problem of its own 👀⤵️
https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1478428567134294019
I avoid getting into the weeds of health data concepts on this platform. But there are lots of verified accounts using these terms interchangeably to make points that aren't supported by the data. Now, you know more than they do about COVID-19 hospital data ;-)
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