Abstracts by keywords: health care; pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; ventilation
The corona pandemic has been the dominant topic for the German healthcare system since the beginning of 2020. Data bases such as registers and reporting procedures had to be created for health care research issues. Alternatively, the routine data collected on a legal basis can be used to gain insights into health care during the pandemic. For this purpose, the Quality Indicators for Church Hospitals – QKK eV association defined 18 key figures on Covid-19 and used them for evaluations of the first half of 2020. These provide an overview of the care of affected patients in small and medium-sized church-run hospitals. The proportion of patients with Covid-19 among all inpatient treatment cases in the period examined was 0.47%. Of these patients, 17.77% died in hospital. Around 30% of patients with Covid-19 were treated in intensive care units, and a fifth of patients with Covid-19 were ventilated. This means that smaller and medium-sized hospitals were also widely affected by the corona pandemic. The hospitals had to provide maximum therapy options for these patients. Compared to other studies, differences emerged in which structural conditions may be important.