COVID-19: Saskatchewan changes up hospitalization reporting, includes ‘incidental’ cases
Global News
The government made the move to distinguish patients who are admitted for COVID-19-related illness and those who are admitted for other reasons but test positive during screening.
For the second day in a row, Saskatchewan reported “incidental” infections of COVID-19 patients in hospital.
The provincial government made the move to distinguish patients who are admitted for COVID-19-related illness and those who are admitted for other reasons but test positive during routine COVID screening.
Saskatchewan Health Authority Vice President, Infrastructure, Information and Support Derek Miller said the change was made to provide another way to look at COVID-19-demand across facilities.
“It allows us to have a better understanding of what is the specific COVID demand on our facilities versus the demand that would have actually been there regardless,” Miller said during a press briefing on Thursday.
Miller added cases labelled as COVID-19-related illness are patients who show COVID-19 symptoms, whereas incidental cases are patients who are asymptomatic.
“There may be occasions where somebody’s status changes, if they weren’t showing symptoms while they were in the hospital and then develop symptoms. The clinical team would make those determinations and might re-classify them,” Miller explained.
As of Friday’s COVID-19 update, of the 105 patients in hospital with COVID-19, 49 are inpatient hospitalizations with COVID-19-related illness and 35 are incidental, asymptomatic infections. Another 10 inpatient hospitalizations have not yet been determined.
Of the 11 patients in ICU with COVID-19, one has an incidental, asymptomatic infection.
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