COVID-19-specific Prefectural Hospital Bed Utilization Rate and In-hospital Mortality Among COVID-19 Patients Throughout the First 3 Years of the Pandemic in Japan
Our results emphasize that preventing hospital bed shortages during outbreaks is an important public health strategy to reduce the associated mortality, particularly when new strains emerge and in younger people.
Authors
- Koji Kitajima
- Kazumasa Yamagishi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3301-5519)
- Yusuke Asai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2979-3449)
- Mari Terada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5171-1828)
- Yuta Taniguchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0176-2379)
- Norio Ohmagari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4622-8970)
- Mariko Hosozawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6886-5156)
- Hiroyasu Iso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9241-7289)
- H. Kimura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9630-0099)
Institutions
- University of Tsukuba (JP)
- Juntendo University (JP)
- Health Services Research & Development (US)
- Global Policy Institute (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Epidemiology
- Published
- 2025-04-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.je20240395
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00