{"id":8685,"date":"2020-08-03T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:46:57","slug":"trends-in-emergency-department-visits-and-hospital-admissions-in-health-care-systems-in-5-states-in-the-first-months-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/trends-in-emergency-department-visits-and-hospital-admissions-in-health-care-systems-in-5-states-in-the-first-months-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions in Health Care Systems in 5 States in the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jeffery et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">examine daily emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admission rates<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of 24 EDs in Colorado (n=4), Connecticut (n=5), Massachusetts (n=5), New York (n=5), and North Carolina (n=5)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from January 1 to April 30, 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and temporal associations with the onset of local COVID-19 case escalations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">C<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ompared to the annual ED volume before the COVID-19 pandemic, ED visits decreased<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with a range from 42% in Colorado to 64% in New York. However, hospital admission rates from the ED increased<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with a range from 22% in North Carolina to 149% in New York.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In each setting, hospital admission rates remained stable until COVID-19 cases started increasing locally, at which point admission rates increased as well<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, suggesting lower ED volume but higher acuity of illness.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jeffery et al. (Aug 3, 2020). Trends in Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions in Health Care Systems in 5 States in the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US. JAMA Internal Medicine.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3288\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3288<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffery et al.\u00a0examine daily emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admission rates\u00a0of 24 EDs in Colorado (n=4), Connecticut (n=5), Massachusetts (n=5), New York (n=5), and North Carolina (n=5)\u00a0from January 1 to April 30, 2020\u00a0and temporal associations with the onset of local COVID-19 case escalations.\u00a0Compared to the annual ED volume before the COVID-19 pandemic, ED visits&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/trends-in-emergency-department-visits-and-hospital-admissions-in-health-care-systems-in-5-states-in-the-first-months-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-us\/\">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":[24],"class_list":["post-8685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","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=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8686,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions\/8686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}