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Should COVID-19 symptoms be used to cohort patients in the emergency department? A retrospective analysis

OBJECTIVE: To determine how cohorting patients based on presenting complaints affects risk of nosocomial infection in crowded Emergency Departments (EDs) under conditions of high and low prevalence of COVID-19. METHODS: This was a retrospective analysis of presenting complaints and PCR tests collect...

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Autores principales: Bijur, Polly E., Friedman, Benjamin W., Baron, Sarah W., Ramasahayam, Abhiram, Nerenberg, Rebecca, Sharpe, Shellyann, Goldstein, D. Yitzchak, Esses, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35220142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2022.01.070