{"id":7751,"date":"2020-06-23T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T19:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7751"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:26:59","slug":"potential-indirect-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-use-of-emergency-departments-for-acute-life-threatening-conditions-united-states-january-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/23\/potential-indirect-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-use-of-emergency-departments-for-acute-life-threatening-conditions-united-states-january-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Use of Emergency Departments for Acute Life-Threatening Conditions \u2014 United States, January\u2013May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the 10 weeks following the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">emergency declaration in the US<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">March 15\u2013May 23, 2020)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0emergency\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">department<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0visits reported in the National Syndromic Surveillance Program<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0declined\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">23% for heart\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">attack<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 20% for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">stroke<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and 10% for hyperglycemic crisis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared with the previous 10-week period<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors report that this system captures an estimated 73% of emergency department visits nationwide.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that there is a potential for adverse health outcomes if these declines are due to avoidance of potentially beneficial medical care.<\/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\">Lange et al. (June 22, 2020). Potential Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Use of Emergency Departments for Acute Life-Threatening Conditions \u2014 United States, January\u2013May 2020. MMWR.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6925e2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6925e2<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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>In the 10 weeks following the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0emergency declaration in the US\u00a0(March 15\u2013May 23, 2020),\u00a0emergency\u00a0department\u00a0visits reported in the National Syndromic Surveillance Program\u00a0declined\u00a0by\u00a023% for heart\u00a0attacks, 20% for\u00a0strokes, and 10% for hyperglycemic crisis\u00a0compared with the previous 10-week period.\u00a0The authors report that this system captures an estimated 73% of emergency department visits nationwide.\u00a0The authors conclude that there is a potential&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/23\/potential-indirect-effects-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-use-of-emergency-departments-for-acute-life-threatening-conditions-united-states-january-may-2020\/\">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-7751","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\/7751","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=7751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7752,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}