https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/ef0fdecc8100f15225d99c70f39b5596.pdf e95362b63e08e7740475906b0980f647 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Inpatient Hospitalizations during the First Wave of COVID-19 in Portugal Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource João Rocha, Patrícia Soares, Catarina Filipe, Sílvia Lopes, Mário Teixeira, Inês Fonseca, Joana Sousa, Diana Marquês, Ricardo Mestre, António Duarte, Rui Santana Description An account of the resource The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of the pandemic on inpatient hospital admissions during the first wave in Portugal. Data from hospital admissions in mainland Portugal from 2008 to 2017 were used to forecast inpatient hospital admissions for March to May 2020. The observed number of hospitalizations and their characteristics were compared to forecasted values. Variations were compared by hospital and region. Statistical analysis was used to investigate whether patterns of variations existed according to hospital characteristics. There were 119,315 fewer hospitalizations than expected during March to May 2020 in Portugal, which represented a 57% reduction. Non-COVID-19 hospitalizations had a higher mean length of stay and proportion of inpatient deaths than forecasted values. Differences between observed and forecasted values varied greatly among regions and hospitals. These variations were not associated with COVID-19 hospital admissions, region, forecasted number of hospitalizations, type of hospital, or occupation rate. The impact on inpatient hospital admissions for each hospital was not consistent or proportional to the expected use across Portugal, as indicated by variations between forecasted and observed values. The appropriate planning of future responses may contribute to improving the necessary balance between the level of hospital admissions for usual health needs of the population and the response to COVID-19 patients. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Subject The topic of the resource covid-19, Portugal, health services, access to care, Hospitalizations Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 10.1159/000514163 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Portuguese Journal of Public Health Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Karger Publishers Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Public aspects of medicine