Effects of COVID-19 on Hospital Utilization Trends

With the onset of COVID-19, hospitals statewide saw a sharp drop in inpatient discharges, emergency department utilization, and ambulatory surgeries. These datasets contain monthly counts of encounters and in-hospital mortalities in those three settings and are also broken down by the following common health conditions/categories: anxiety, asthma, behavioral syndromes, cancer, cardiac arrest, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), COVID-19, depression, diabetes, homeless, hypertension, mood disorders (excluding depression), non-mood psychotic disorders, nonpsychotic disorders (excluding anxiety), obesity, pneumonia, respiratory arrest/failure, sepsis, stroke, substance use disorders, and unspecified mental disorders.

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Contact Email [email protected]
Program HCAI, Healthcare Analytics Branch, Clinical Data Group
Homepage URL https://hcai.ca.gov/visualizations/effects-of-covid-19-on-hospital-utilization-trends/
Temporal Coverage

2018-2021
Spatial/Geographic Coverage

Statewide
Geographic Granularity Statewide
Language English
Frequency Monthly
Source Link Healthcare Utilization
License Terms of Use
Limitations Use of this data is subject to the CHHS Terms of Use and any copyright and proprietary notices incorporated in or accompanying the individual files.
Related Resources

Department of Health Care Access and Information: Healthcare Utilization, Patient-Level Administrative
Citation

Department of Health Care Access and Information: Hospital Utilization Trends, Utilization Trends by Health Category, In-Hospital Mortality Trends by Health Category, In-Hospital Mortality Trends by Diagnosis Type, In-Hospital Mortality Trends by Secondary Diagnosis
Last Updated March 8, 2023, 21:04 (UTC)