System impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on New York City's emergency medical services

DJ Prezant, EA Lancet, R Zeig‐Owens… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To describe the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on New York City's (NYC) 9‐1‐
1 emergency medical services (EMS) system and assess the efficacy of pandemic planning …

[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] The impact of COVID-19 on a large, Canadian community emergency department

DD Lee, H Jung, W Lou, D Rauchwerger… - Western Journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods This retrospective observational study took place in Ontario, Canada, from March
17–June 30, 2020, during province-wide lockdowns in response to COVID-19. We used a …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department visits—United States, January 1, 2019–May 30, 2020

KP Hartnett - MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020 - cdc.gov
NSSP found that emergency department (ED) visits declined 42% during the early COVID-
19 pandemic, from a mean of 2.1 million per week (March 31–April 27, 2019) to 1.2 million …

[HTML][HTML] Update: COVID-19 pandemic–associated changes in emergency department visits—United States, December 2020–January 2021

J Adjemian - MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021 - cdc.gov
Update: COVID-19 Pandemic–Associated Changes in Emergency Department Visits — United
States, December 2020–January 2021 | MMWR Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department visits and patient safety in the United States

B Boserup, M McKenney, A Elkbuli - The American journal of emergency …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background COVID-19 pandemic effects are still being elucidated. Stay-at-home orders and
social distancing compounded with COVID-19 concerns have caused significant disruptions …

The impact of COVID‐19 on statewide EMS use for cardiac emergencies and stroke in Massachusetts

SA Goldberg, RE Cash, G Peters… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To evaluate the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) on emergency
medical services (EMS) use for time‐sensitive medical conditions. We examined EMS use …

Emergency department utilization and patient outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in America

S Gutovitz, J Pangia, A Finer, K Rymer… - The Journal of emergency …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic precipitated fear of
contagion and influenced many people to avoid the emergency department (ED). It is …

Emergency department utilization for emergency conditions during COVID-19

AK Venkatesh, AT Janke, L Shu-Xia… - Annals of emergency …, 2021 - Elsevier
Study objective We use a national emergency medicine clinical quality registry to describe
recent trends in emergency department (ED) visitation overall and for select emergency …

[HTML][HTML] Decreased hospital admissions through emergency departments during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Nourazari, SR Davis, R Granovsky, R Austin… - The American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Study objective Emergency Department (ED) visits decreased significantly in the
United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. A troubling proportion of this decrease was …