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. 2021 Mar:41:241-243.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.05.097. Epub 2020 Jun 2.

Emergency department operations in a large health system during COVID-19

Brett A Cohen  1 , Emily G Wessling  2 , Peter T Serina  3 , Daniel S Cruz  4 , Howard S Kim  5 , Danielle M McCarthy  6 , Timothy M Loftus  7
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Emergency department operations in a large health system during COVID-19

Brett A Cohen et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID; Disaster; ED; Emergency department; Operations; Pandemic.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest BAC, EGW, PTS, DSC, HSK, DMM, TML: Declarations of interest: None.

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Graphical representation of total number of patient encounters (weekly), COVID-19 related encounters (weekly), and median ED length of stay (hours) and door to doc time (hours). Hospitals were categorized by annual ED volumes into very-high volume (80–100 k), high-volume (60–80 k) and average to low-volume (<60 k). Noted are key dates including first case of COVID-19 in Illinois (1/24/2020), first case of COVID-19 in health system (3/4/2020), WHO declaration of global pandemic (3/11/2020) and State of Illinois Stay at Home order (3/21/2020).
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