Return Hospital Admissions Among 1419 COVID-19 Patients Discharged from Five U.S. Emergency Departments

Austin S Kilaru^{1

2}, Kathleen Lee^{2

3}, Christopher K Snider³, Zachary F Meisel², David A Asch^{1

3}, Nandita Mitra⁴, M Kit Delgado^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ From the, National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
² the, Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
³ the, Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ and the, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Review

Austin S Kilaru et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;27(10):1039-1042.

doi: 10.1111/acem.14117. Epub 2020 Sep 27.

Austin S Kilaru^{1

2}, Kathleen Lee^{2

3}, Christopher K Snider³, Zachary F Meisel², David A Asch^{1

3}, Nandita Mitra⁴, M Kit Delgado^{2

4}

¹ From the, National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
² the, Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
³ the, Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ and the, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

No abstract available

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