Pediatric Bed Capacity, Bed Strain, and Load Imbalance During the 2022 Respiratory Viral Season

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• Nadir Ijaz; Constantin Radu; Craig Rothenberg; Alexander Janke; Arjun Venkatesh
PMID: 41004148DOI: http://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.33943

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The article describes how hospitals struggled to find enough beds for sick children during the 2022 respiratory virus season. Many hospitals were overcrowded, and some areas had more patients than others. This made it hard to give all children the care they needed. The study suggests that hospitals need better ways to share resources and plan ahead so that every child can get a bed when they are sick.

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Focus Area: Infectious Disease

Audiences: Emergency Managers; Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Response

Keywords: Bed Occupancy; Health Resources; Hospital Bed Capacity; Hospitals, Pediatric; Patient Admission; Pediatrics; Respiratory Tract Infections; Workload

Institutions: Yale University; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; University of Michigan

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