Open Access<p>Intensive Care Unit Capacity and Its Associated Risk Factors During the COVID-19 Surge in the Republic of Korea: Analysis Using Nationwide Health Claims Data</p>
Author(s) -
Seung Heon Lee,
So-Youn Park,
Jeong Yeon Seon,
Woo-Hwi Jeon,
Sung Il Nam,
Jong-Hak Park,
Jae Seok Park,
Kim Hae-Young,
Niket Thakkar,
Prashanth Selvaraj,
Anna Bershteyn,
InHwan Oh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s273363
Subject(s) - intensive care unit , medicine , covid-19 , emergency medicine , census , multivariate analysis , medical emergency , demography , disease , intensive care medicine , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , population , sociology
To identify risk factors for intensive care unit (ICU) admission and mechanical ventilator usage among confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients and estimate the effects of mitigation efforts on ICU capacity in Korea.