COVID-19 hospital admission appropriateness analysis |Biomedgrid

Inconsistencies in clinical practice, coupled with uncertainty, are constants across all scenarios and throughout all time. In countries with better-developed healthcare models, overuse is far more problematic than underuse, hence the appearance of methods for assessing hospital inadequacy at the end of the 20th century [1]. During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital admission criteria have been questioned based on the alleged inconsistency between hospitals [2,3]. Several studies put the proportion of inappropriate visits to hospital emergency services at between 20% and 80% of the total [4,5]. However, these studies date to the pre-SARS-CoV-2 pandemic period.