Mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients was associated with the COVID-19 admission rate during the first year of the pandemic in Sweden.

Introduction: Studies from the first pandemic wave found associations between COVID-19 hospital load and mortality. Here, we aimed to study if mortality of hospitalized COVID-19 patients was associated with the COVID-19 admission rate during a full year of the pandemic in Sweden.

Method: Observational review of all patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Sweden between March 2020 and February 2021 ( = 42,017).

Mortality trends among hospitalised COVID-19 patients in Sweden: A nationwide observational cohort study.

Background: It is important to know if mortality among hospitalised COVID-19 patients has changed as the pandemic has progressed. The aim of this study was to describe the dynamics over time of mortality among patients hospitalised for COVID-19 in Sweden, using nationwide data compiled by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare.

Methods: Observational cohort study where all patients hospitalised in Sweden between March 1 and September 30, 2020, with SARS-CoV-2 RNA positivity 14 days before to 5 days after admission and a discharge code for COVID-19 were included.

DRG systems in Europe: variations in cost accounting systems among 12 countries.

Background: Diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based hospital payment systems have gradually become the principal means of reimbursing hospitals in many European countries. Owing to the absence or inaccuracy of costs related to DRGs, these countries have started to routinely collect cost accounting data. The aim of the present article was to compare the cost accounting systems of 12 European countries.

External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register.

Background: The Swedish National Inpatient Register (IPR), also called the Hospital Discharge Register, is a principal source of data for numerous research projects. The IPR is part of the National Patient Register. The Swedish IPR was launched in 1964 (psychiatric diagnoses from 1973) but complete coverage did not begin until 1987.

[Result of a CPP-project at a primary health care center. Diabetes care in primary health care is resource-demanding].

Cost Per Patient (CPP) is a method to calculate health care costs for every individual health care contact. The method, which supplies information about diagnosis-related health care consumption, and was employed at the Primary Health Care Centre of Odeshög, Sweden. The study was conducted during 2001 and showed that 2% of the patients who had at least one contact with the health care centre were consuming 20% of the center's total resources.