Frequency and Trends of Pre-Pandemic Surge Periods in U.S. Emergency Departments, 2006-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To quantify the frequency, outside of the pandemic setting, with which individual healthcare facilities faced surge periods due to severe increases in demand for emergency department (ED) care.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

U.S. EDs.

Patients

All ED encounters in the all-payer, nationally representative Nationwide Emergency Department Sample from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, 2006-2019.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Frequency of surge periods defined as ED months in which an individual facility ED saw a greater than 50% increase in ED visits per month above facility-/calendar month-specific medians. During 2006-2019, 3,317 U.S. EDs reported 354,534,229 ED visits across 142,035 ED months. F

SUBMITTER: Anesi GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10443743 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature