{"id":7379,"date":"2020-06-05T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:31:32","slug":"admissions-to-veterans-affairs-hospitals-for-emergency-conditions-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/05\/admissions-to-veterans-affairs-hospitals-for-emergency-conditions-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions to Veterans Affairs Hospitals for Emergency Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among a pre-established cohort, the number of patients admitted to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Veterans Affairs (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">VA<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">inpatient facilities for 6 common emergency conditions declined 41% between March 11 and April 21, 2020 compared with the previous 6 weeks, with no similar decline in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0decrease of this size likely reflect<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0avoidance of hospitals<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0rather than\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">decreased incidence due to declines in elective surgeries, reduced transmission of other pathogens, lower pollution levels,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">or other potential explanations.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Baum and Schwartz. (2020). Admissions to Veterans Affairs Hospitals for Emergency Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2767061\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2767061<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among a pre-established cohort, the number of patients admitted to\u00a0Veterans Affairs (VA)\u00a0inpatient facilities for 6 common emergency conditions declined 41% between March 11 and April 21, 2020 compared with the previous 6 weeks, with no similar decline in 2019.\u00a0The authors conclude that a\u00a0decrease of this size likely reflects\u00a0avoidance of hospitals\u00a0rather than\u00a0decreased incidence due to declines&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/05\/admissions-to-veterans-affairs-hospitals-for-emergency-conditions-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-7379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7380,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}