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cord-352234-utjne1ef	Mendlovic, Joseph	Internal medicine patients admitted without COVID‐19 during the outbreak	2020-08-11		.txt	text/plain	1740	109	55	While attention focused on COVID‐19 patients, uninfected patients were admitted to decreasing numbers of available internal medicine (IM) beds as IM departments were converted to COVID‐19 isolation wards. Characteristics assessed included number of admissions, age, length of stay, mortality rate, number of discharges, number discharged home and functional status of the patients. Patients admitted during the outbreak to IM were younger (74.85 vs 76.86 years) and had a mean shorter hospital length of stay (5.12 vs 7.63 days) compared with the previous 3 years. Patients admitted during the outbreak to IM were younger and had shorter mean hospital stays by over 2 days, when compared with the previous 3 years. • The COVID-19 outbreak was associated with changes in non-COVID-19 internal medicine patient characteristics and hospital length of stay. Norton scale, hospitalization length, complications, and mortality in elderly patients admitted to internal medicine departments	./cache/cord-352234-utjne1ef.txt	./txt/cord-352234-utjne1ef.txt