CO-aVoID: coronavirus outbreak affecting variability of presentations to a local emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health, specifically on patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with non-COVID-related diseases, remains largely undocumented.

Objective

This study explored how overall rates of presentations to the emergency department were impacted immediately after the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, and specifically how key presenting symptoms representing emergency, standard and low-acuity conditions were impacted.

Methods

A sequential modified Delphi survey and cross-sectional analysis of administrative census data from a tertiary care center in New Brunswick, Canada, were performed. Details of ED presentations for emergency, standard and low-acuity conditions from February 1 to April 30, 2020, were comp

SUBMITTER: Cole V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7781175 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature