Emergency care utilization and patients' outcome before and after COVID-19 national lockdown in Iran: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

COVID-19 rapidly spread throughout the world. Stay-at-home and social distance strategies accompanied by fear of contamination with COVID-19 caused significant disruptions in daily life. The study focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency visit and patients' outcome in the emergency department (ED).

Method

Administrative and clinical data of 25-hospital EDs in Kermanshah province of Iran from February 20, 2020, to February 18, 2021, were retrospectively analyzed with the comparable periods in the previous year. The incidence rate ratio (IRR) was used to compare the differences between the pandemic and the pre-pandemic period.

Result

The number of ED visits decreased nearly 50% after the declaration of a national lockdown. Moreover, the p

SUBMITTER: Ghanbari V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10542682 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature