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Discharge to home, nursing home and so on.
Will it be recorded as those who diagnosed covid, then discharged as "better"? Unsure of testing people really far removed from that world.
Chalfie-
People get discharged to peripheral hospitals or nursing homes or home, usually to convalesce. Acute hospitals don't have the resources to look after people until they are 'better'. Patients don't really get documented as 'healed' from an acute inpatient stay, so it's always the main condition treated or investigated that gets documented, that's why there are so many follow-up outpatient clinics. Then home once able to cope.
As I said in one of the first pages of this thread, the closure of so many cottage hospitals is really going to bite us collectively.
Kurai
The ICD10 guidance is evolving for Morbidity (inpatients), so it covers Positive but asymptomatic, Positive with symptoms like SoB or coughing, Positive with manifestations (pneumonia). It also now has guidance for suspected/probable cases, so expect that to rocket.
Cause of deaths are taken from the death certificates and is Mortality coding, though it uses the same codes. U07.1 and U07.2.
I'd be interested in how they are measuring recovery rates, given that they are probably discharging home if stable to recover, to make sure hospitals only have the unstable patients. Is it positive to negative tests?
It's a lag of 11 days from death certification IIRC.