ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Differences in Characteristics and Length of Stay of Elderly Emergency Patients before and after the Outbreak of COVID-19.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Comparative Analysis of Prescriptions and Pharmacy Services in Internet-Based Psychiatric Hospital During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Observational
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on governmental hospitals performance indicators in city of Yazd, Iran: an interrupted time-series analysis.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Italy's Post-COVID-19 Stroke Network: Has It Returned to Pre-Pandemic Standards?Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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(1) Background: COVID-19 has spread worldwide and affected Taiwan's medical system and people's lives. This study aimed to explore the impact of medical utilization on the characteristics and length of stay (LOS) of elderly emergency department (ED) patients before and after COVID-19; (2) Methods: We gathered ED visits from January to September 2019 (pre-pandemic group) and from January to September 2020 (pandemic group). The data analysis methods included descriptive statistics, the Pearson's chi-square test, the independent sample
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