Unlabelled: Which social factors explain racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 access to care and outcomes remain unclear.
Objectives: We hypothesized that preferred language mediates the association between race, ethnicity and delays to care.
Design Setting And Participants: Multicenter, retrospective cohort study of adults with COVID-19 consecutively admitted to the ICU in three Massachusetts hospitals in 2020.
Background: Prone position ventilation (PPV) is resource-intensive, yet the optimal strategy for PPV in intubated patients with COVID-19 is unclear.
Research Question: Does a prolonged (24 or more h) PPV strategy improve mortality in intubated COVID-19 patients compared with intermittent (∼16 h with daily supination) PPV?
Study Design And Methods: Multicenter, retrospective cohort study of consecutively admitted intubated COVID-19 patients treated with PPV between March 11 and May 31, 2020. The primary outcome was 30-day all-cause mortality.
Purpose: Code status orders impact clinical outcomes as well as patients' and surrogates' experiences. This is the first multicenter cohort examining code status orders of ICU patients with COVID-19 reported to date.
Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study including adult patients who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and were admitted to the ICU at three hospitals in Massachusetts from March 11, 2020 - May 31, 2020.