{"id":9670,"date":"2021-05-07T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:14:27","slug":"emergency-department-visits-for-emergent-conditions-among-older-adults-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/07\/emergency-department-visits-for-emergent-conditions-among-older-adults-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Department Visits for Emergent Conditions Among Older\u00a0 Adults During the COVID -19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A retrospective cohort study of non-COVID related emergency department visits among US adults\u00a0 found that visits for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), stroke, and sepsis declined precipitously\u00a0 during the early pandemic period and remained lower than pre-pandemic levels through the\u00a0 summer and fall, particularly among adults age \u226575. In contrast, visits for hip fractures and falls did\u00a0 not significantly change between January 2019 and November 2020. The authors suggest this\u00a0 difference may be attributable to vague or atypical symptoms in AMI or stroke that were not\u00a0 recognized by older adults, coupled with isolation from family and friends who may have otherwise\u00a0 recognized changes in health status and assisted with accessing medical care. The authors note that\u00a0 these changes in care seeking may be one cause of excess non-COVID-19 mortality in older adults\u00a0 during the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Janke et al. (May 6, 2021). Emergency Department Visits for Emergent Conditions Among Older\u00a0 Adults During the COVID -19 Pandemic. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jgs.17227\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jgs.17227<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective cohort study of non-COVID related emergency department visits among US adults\u00a0 found that visits for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), stroke, and sepsis declined precipitously\u00a0 during the early pandemic period and remained lower than pre-pandemic levels through the\u00a0 summer and fall, particularly among adults age \u226575. In contrast, visits for hip fractures and falls&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/07\/emergency-department-visits-for-emergent-conditions-among-older-adults-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":[34],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670","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=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9671,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions\/9671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}