ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Loading and Quality of an Emergency Department in Taiwan: Enlightenment from a Low-Risk Country in a Public Health Crisis.
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- Analyzing COVID-19 and Air Pollution Effects on Pediatric Asthma Emergency Room Visits in Taiwan.Toxics · 2024Article
- Symptom-based scoring technique by machine learning to predict COVID-19: a validation study.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Imaging strategies used in emergency departments for the diagnostic workup of COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic: a cost-effectiveness analysis.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2022Article
- Point-of-care artificial intelligence-enabled ECG for dyskalemia: a retrospective cohort analysis for accuracy and outcome prediction.NPJ digital medicine · 2022Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Treatment Efficiency for Traumatic Brain Injury in the Emergency Department: A Multicenter Study in Taiwan.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Rapid Antigen Test Combined with Chest Computed Tomography to Rule Out COVID-19 in Patients Admitted to the Emergency Department.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on health-care quality in the emergency department (ED) in countries with a low risk is unclear. This study aimed to explore the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on ED loading, quality of care, and patient prognosis. Data were retrospectively collected from 1 January 2018 to 30 September 2020 at the ED of Tri-service general hospital. Analyses included day-based ED loading, quality of care, and patient prognosis. Data on triage assessment, physiological states, disease history, and results of laboratory tests were collected and analyzed. The number of daily visits significantly decreased after the pandemic, leading to a reduction in the time to examination. Admitted patients benefitted from the pandemic with a reduction of 0.80 h in the length of stay in the ED, faster discharge without death, and reduced re-admission. However, non-admitted visits with chest pain increased the risk of mortality after the pandemic. In conclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant reduction in low-acuity ED visits and improved prognoses for hospitalized patients. However, clinicians should be alert about patients with chest pain due to their increased risk of mortality in subsequent admission.
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