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ArticleEmergency medicine Australasia : EMA2021

Planning for the next pandemic: Reflections on the early phase of the Australian COVID-19 public health response from the emergency department.

Laksmi Sakura Govindasamy, Kai Hsun Hsiao, Lai Heng Foong, Simon Judkins

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Article in Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Laksmi Sakura GovindasamyEmergency Department, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9233-4897
Lai Heng FoongEmergency Department, Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Simon JudkinsEmergency Department, Echuca Health, Echuca, Victoria, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

EDs play a crucial role as frontline health services throughout public health emergencies, including pandemics. The strength of the Australian public health response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has mitigated the impact of the pandemic on clinical services, but there has still been a substantial impact on EDs and the health system. We revisit major events and lessons from the first wave of COVID-19 in Australia to consider the implications and avenues for system-level improvements for future pandemic and public health emergency response for EDs. Notwithstanding, the remarkable efforts of healthcare workers across the health system, COVID-19 has uncovered structural and planning challenges and highlighted weaknesses and strengths of the Australian federation. In anticipating future pandemics and other public health threats, particularly in the face of climate change, hard-won lessons from the COVID-19 response should be incorporated in future planning, policies, practice and advocacy.

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Disaster PlanningAustraliaCOVID-19Emergency Service, HospitalHumansPandemicsPublic HealthSARS-CoV-2coronavirusCOVID-19disaster planningpandemicpublic health emergency

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PMID33928756
PMCPMC8209894

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