Patient Outcomes and Lessons-Learned from Treating Patients with Severe COVID-19 at a Long Term Care Hospital
Our paper, "Patient Outcomes and Lessons-Learned from Treating Patients with Severe COVID-19 at a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital," describes the treatment strategies and precautions used at our facility during the early days of the pandemic while treating and rehabilitating patients after a COVID-19 diagnosis. Further, we examined how specific risk factors (i.e., age, sex, and BMI) affected disease severity and patient recovery (i.e., patient length of stay) in this population. Next, we review our COVID-19 patients' outcomes treated by Respiratory Therapy, Physical and Occupational Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology. Lastly, we discuss our observations and how our findings relate to rehabilitation for this population.
Project Type: Research
Year started: 2020
Diagnosis: COVID-19
Presentation 1: Patient Outcomes and Lessons Learned From Treating Patients With Severe COVID-19 at a Long-term Acute Care Hospital: Single-Center Retrospective Study. Pete Grevelding, Henry C Hrdlicka, Steve Holland, Lorraine Cullen, Amanda Meyer, Catherine Connors, Darielle Cooper, and Allison Greco. Published February 2022 in JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies. doi: 10.2196/31502 PMID: 35023835.
Presentation 2: Outcomes of and Lessons Learned from Patients with Severe COVID-19 in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital, Poster, 2020
