ArticleJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2021
A retrospective multistate analysis: Do regional football games impact emergency department patient volume?
Article in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Watching the Game, Skipping the Hospital: World Cup Matches and Cardiovascular Hospitalizations.Cardiology research · 2026Article
- Weather information improves a predictive model of emergency department arrivals.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Article
- The Effect of Football Derbies on Emergency Department Visits: Evidence from Turkey, 2024.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2025Article
- Assessing the Impact of External and Internal Factors on Emergency Department Overcrowding.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A retrospective multistate analysis: Do regional football games impact emergency department patient volume?Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe sought to assess the effect of National Football League (NFL) games played by a regional sports team, the New England Patriots, on emergency department (ED) patient volume.
methodsWe conducted a multicenter, retrospective chart review at the following 3 tertiary centers in New England from 2012 to 2019: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; and Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME.
resultsWithin the NFL season, we observed a 2.6% overall decrease (-10.4 patients) in average total daily volume across the study sites on Sundays when Patriots games were played compared with Sundays when games were not played (
conclusionsOur data support prior studies that showed a minimal impact of major sporting events on ED patient volume at tertiary centers. These results add to the limited data on this topic and can inform administrators whether staffing adjustments are necessary during similar types of sporting events.
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