COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends in Rural Versus Urban Areas in the United States

被引：7

作者：

Zhu, Yi ^{[1
]}

Carroll, Caitlin ^{[1
]}

Vu, Khoa ^{[1
]}

Sen, Soumya ^{[1
]}

Georgiou, Archelle ^{[2
]}

Karaca-Mandic, Pinar ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA

[2] Starkey Hearing Technol, Eden Prairie, MN USA

来源：

MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW | 2023年 / 80卷 / 02期

基金：

美国医疗保健研究与质量局; 美国国家卫生研究院;

关键词：

COVID-19; hospitalizations; rural health; rural and urban disparities; hospital resources;

D O I：

10.1177/10775587221111105

中图分类号：

R19 [保健组织与事业（卫生事业管理）];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Since the summer of 2020, the rate of coronavirus cases in the United States has been higher in rural areas than in urban areas, raising concerns that patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will overwhelm under-resourced rural hospitals. Using data from the University of Minnesota COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we document disparities in COVID-19 hospitalization rates between rural and urban areas. We show that rural-urban differences in COVID-19 admission rates were minimal in the summer of 2020 but began to diverge in fall 2020. Rural areas had statistically higher hospitalization rates from September 2020 through early 2021, after which rural-urban admission rates re-converged. The insights in this article are relevant to policymakers as they consider the adequacy of hospital resources across rural and urban areas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

引用

页码：236 / 244

页数：9

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