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Injury-Related Emergency Department Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic

INTRODUCTION: On March 13, 2020, the U.S. declared COVID-19 to be a national emergency. As communities adopted mitigation strategies, there were potential changes in the trends of injuries treated in emergency department. This study provides national estimates of injury-related emergency department...

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Autores principales: Law, Royal K., Wolkin, Amy F., Patel, Nimesh, Alic, Alen, Yuan, Keming, Ahmed, Kamran, Idaikkadar, Nimi, Haileyesus, Tadesse
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8858709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35292198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.01.018
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author Law, Royal K.
Wolkin, Amy F.
Patel, Nimesh
Alic, Alen
Yuan, Keming
Ahmed, Kamran
Idaikkadar, Nimi
Haileyesus, Tadesse
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Wolkin, Amy F.
Patel, Nimesh
Alic, Alen
Yuan, Keming
Ahmed, Kamran
Idaikkadar, Nimi
Haileyesus, Tadesse
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description INTRODUCTION: On March 13, 2020, the U.S. declared COVID-19 to be a national emergency. As communities adopted mitigation strategies, there were potential changes in the trends of injuries treated in emergency department. This study provides national estimates of injury-related emergency department visits in the U.S. before and during the pandemic. METHODS: A secondary retrospective cohort study was conducted using trained, on-site hospital coders collecting data for injury-related emergency department cases from medical records from a nationally representative sample of 66 U.S. hospital emergency departments. Injury emergency department visit estimates in the year before the pandemic (January 1, 2019–December 31, 2019) were compared with estimates of the year of pandemic declaration (January 1, 2020–December 31, 2020) for overall nonfatal injury-related emergency department visits, motor vehicle, falls-related, self-harm-, assault-related, and poisoning-related emergency department visits. RESULTS: There was an estimated 1.7 million (25%) decrease in nonfatal injury-related emergency department visits during April through June 2020 compared with those of the same timeframe in 2019. Similar decreases were observed for emergency department visits because of motor vehicle‒related injuries (199,329; 23.3%) and falls-related injuries (497,971; 25.1%). Monthly 2020 estimates remained relatively in line with 2019 estimates for self-harm‒, assault-, and poisoning-related emergency department visits. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide updates for clinical and public health practitioners on the changing profile of injury-related emergency department visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the short- and long-term impacts of the pandemic is important to preventing future injuries.
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spelling pubmed-88587092022-02-22 Injury-Related Emergency Department Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic Law, Royal K. Wolkin, Amy F. Patel, Nimesh Alic, Alen Yuan, Keming Ahmed, Kamran Idaikkadar, Nimi Haileyesus, Tadesse Am J Prev Med Research Article INTRODUCTION: On March 13, 2020, the U.S. declared COVID-19 to be a national emergency. As communities adopted mitigation strategies, there were potential changes in the trends of injuries treated in emergency department. This study provides national estimates of injury-related emergency department visits in the U.S. before and during the pandemic. METHODS: A secondary retrospective cohort study was conducted using trained, on-site hospital coders collecting data for injury-related emergency department cases from medical records from a nationally representative sample of 66 U.S. hospital emergency departments. Injury emergency department visit estimates in the year before the pandemic (January 1, 2019–December 31, 2019) were compared with estimates of the year of pandemic declaration (January 1, 2020–December 31, 2020) for overall nonfatal injury-related emergency department visits, motor vehicle, falls-related, self-harm-, assault-related, and poisoning-related emergency department visits. RESULTS: There was an estimated 1.7 million (25%) decrease in nonfatal injury-related emergency department visits during April through June 2020 compared with those of the same timeframe in 2019. Similar decreases were observed for emergency department visits because of motor vehicle‒related injuries (199,329; 23.3%) and falls-related injuries (497,971; 25.1%). Monthly 2020 estimates remained relatively in line with 2019 estimates for self-harm‒, assault-, and poisoning-related emergency department visits. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide updates for clinical and public health practitioners on the changing profile of injury-related emergency department visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the short- and long-term impacts of the pandemic is important to preventing future injuries. Elsevier Science 2022-07 2022-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8858709/ /pubmed/35292198 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.01.018 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Ahmed, Kamran
Idaikkadar, Nimi
Haileyesus, Tadesse
Injury-Related Emergency Department Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8858709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35292198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.01.018
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