ArticleJournal of emergencies, trauma, and shock
The Impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Attendance: What Seems To Be Keeping the Patients Away?
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- COVID-19 pandemic: impact of lockdown measures on presentations to a Singapore tertiary care hospital emergency department.Singapore medical journal · 2026Article
- Caregiver experiences in an Asian paediatric emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic.Singapore medical journal · 2026Article
- Discharge after coronary artery bypass grafting: A qualitative study highlighting the need for individualised, person-centred care.PloS one · 2026Article
- Trends in dermatological presentations at the emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Singapore: a 4-year analysis pre- and during COVID-19.International journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Association of COVID-19 'circuit breaker' with higher rates of elderly trauma admissions.Singapore medical journal · 2025Observational
- Characteristics and reasons non-urgent self-referred patients visit the emergency department in Kimberley, South Africa.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2025Article
- Enhancing Emergency Department Management: A Data-Driven Approach to Detect and Predict Surge Persistence.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- One Year on: An Overview of Singapore's Response to COVID-19-What We Did, How We Fared, How We Can Move Forward.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
During outbreaks such as severe acute respiratory syndrome and COVID 19, many Emergency Departments across the world had a reduction in the general attendance, including the attendance of more serious and critical diagnoses. Here, the author shares the numbers seen at Singapore General Hospital, the largest public hospital in Singapore during the period of February to June 2020. The reduction ranged from 13% to 28% compared to the same period in 2019, before the outbreak. Patient and healthcare system-related factors which may have caused these observations are discussed. The author also puts forth the Behavioral Immune System and Response mechanism as a possible explanation for patients staying away from the hospitals during the outbreak.
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