A country-level analysis comparing hospital capacity and utilisation during the first COVID-19 wave across Europe

Elke Berger, Juliane Winkelmann, Helene Eckhardt, Ulrike Nimptsch, Dimitra Panteli, Christoph Reichebner, Tanja Rombey and Reinhard Busse

Health Policy, 2022, vol. 126, issue 5, 373-381

Abstract: The exponential increase in SARS-CoV-2 infections during the first wave of the pandemic created an extraordinary overload and demand on hospitals, especially intensive care units (ICUs), across Europe. European countries have implemented different measures to address the surge ICU capacity, but little is known about the extent. The aim of this paper is to compare the rates of hospitalised COVID-19 patients in acute and ICU care and the levels of national surge capacity for intensive care beds across 16 European countries and Lombardy region during the first wave of the pandemic (28 February to 31 July).

Keywords: COVID-19; Hospital capacity; Hospital utilisation; Intensive care; ICU surge capacity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.11.009

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