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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Sep 24;39(11):2010–2017. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00980

Exhibit 3.

Changes in non-COVID-19 medical admissions and all medical admissions in US hospitals, by diagnosis, 2020 relative to equivalent periods in 2019

Change in non-COVID-19 admissions (%) Change in all medical admissions (%)
Diagnoses Sample size at baseline Nadir (April) Rebound (June/July) Nadir (April) Rebound (June/July)
Pancreatitis 1,151 −23.7 −4.5a −22.4 −2.9a
Stroke 2,350 −24.7 −16.9 −23.1 −15.8
Altered mental status 2,251 −27.1 −15.5 −18.9 −11.2
Alcohol-related 1,042 −32.6 4.3a −30.5 5.8a
Dehydration 4,446 −33.7 −12.5 −29.4 −9.7
Acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction 416 −34.9 −22.2 −33.1 −21.1
Diabetes 2,283 −38.5 0.8a −35.8 3.5a
Gastrointestinal bleeding 4,042 −38.8 −11.9 −36.9 −9.7
Sepsis and sepsis shock 6,712 −40.1 −25.1 −24.8 −14.4
Acute myocardial infarction (non-ST-elevation) 1,568 −42.2 −16.1 −39.4 −14.4
Skin and soft tissue infection 2,806 −44.0 −19.0 −42.5 −18.1
Respiratory failure 5,986 −44.8 −21.0 −11.8 11.1
Chest pain (excluding acute myocardial infarction) 7,383 −46.0 −14.6 −44.0 −13.0
Arrhythmia 3,626 −47.2 −14.7 −44.2 −12.3
Congestive heart failure 3,878 −47.5 −20.1 −43.8 −17.8
Abdominal pain 4,893 −48.5 −14.4 −46.1 −11.9
Urinary tract infection 2,296 −48.5 −24.3 −46.2 −22.0
Transient ischemic attack 1,082 −50.9 −11.4 −50.0 −10.8
Pneumonia 3,953 −53.6 −44.1 −16.0 −19.6
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/asthma 3,192 −68.6 −40.1 −61.6 −35.5

SOURCE Data from Sound Physicians hospital admissions. NOTES Data from 201 hospitals in 36 states. Diagnostic category based on initial diagnosis code at admission.

The appendix contains all confidence intervals (see note 17 in text).

a

All results except these are statistically significant (p < 0:05).