Changes in emergency department use in British Columbia, Canada, during the first 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic

J Yao, MA Irvine, B Klaver, M Zandy, AK Dheri… - Cmaj, 2023 - Can Med Assoc
Background: Previous studies have shown reductions in the volume of emergency
department visits early in the COVID-19 pandemic, but few have evaluated the pandemic's …

[HTML][HTML] COVID–19 driven decline in emergency visits: Has it continued, is it permanent, and what does it mean for emergency physicians?

G Melnick, JF O'Leary, BA Zaniello… - The American journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Hospital-based emergency departments have been a sustained source of
overall hospital utilization in the United States. In 2019, an estimated 150 million hospital …

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department encounters in a major metropolitan area

JR Stowell, MB Henry, P Pugsley, J Edwards… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The end of 2019 marked the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public
avoidance of health care facilities, including the emergency department (ED), has been …

Changes In Non-COVID-19 Emergency Department Visits By Acuity And Insurance Status During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Study examines non-COVID-19 …

J Yu, G Hammond, RJ Waken, D Fox… - Health …, 2021 - healthaffairs.org
Prior studies suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with decreases in
emergency department (ED) volumes, but it is not known whether these decreases varied by …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in emergency department visits in the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic (april–december 2020), 29 states

ML Barrett, PL Owens, M Roemer - Healthcare Cost and Utilization …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the United States in 2019, there were approximately 143 million emergency department
(ED) visits, and about 14 percent of these ED visits resulted in hospitalization. 1 At the start …

An analysis of changes in emergency department visits after a state declaration during the time of COVID-19

BC Westgard, MW Morgan, G Vazquez-Benitez… - Annals of emergency …, 2020 - Elsevier
Study objective In the initial period of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,
there has been a substantial decrease in the number of patients seeking care in the …

COVID-19 pandemic–associated changes in overall emergency department visits by age group, race, and ethnicity—United States, January 2019–April 2022

AR Smith, J DeVies, K Carey, M Sheppard… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background ED data are an important source of surveillance data for monitoring many
conditions of public health concern and are especially useful in describing trends related to …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of COVID-19 on emergency medical service call volumes and patient acuity: a cross-sectional study in Niagara, Ontario

R Ferron, G Agarwal, R Cooper, D Munkley - BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic is a major public health problem. Subsequently,
emergency medical services (EMS) have anecdotally experienced fluctuations in demand …

[HTML][HTML] Emergency department visits for serious diagnoses during the COVID‐19 pandemic

HS Kim, DS Cruz, MJ Conrardy… - Academic Emergency …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pan-demic has significantly affected health care
utilization in the United States. Although reductions in routine outpatient visits and elective …

[HTML][HTML] Decrease in emergency medical services utilization during early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia

B Grunau, J Helmer, S Lee, J Acker, J Deakin… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Objective To date in the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a decrease in patients
accessing emergency health services,(EHS) but research has been conducted in areas with …