Changes in Acute ED Visits by Race/Ethnicity During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic.

Celina Morales, Tim A Bruckner, Senxi Du, Andrew Young, Annie Ro

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Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Celina MoralesDepartment of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California Irvine, 653 E. Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA, 92697-3957, USA. celinm1@uci.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3611-4707

Tim A BrucknerDepartment of Health, Society, and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

Senxi DuDepartment of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Andrew YoungHarbor UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Annie RoDepartment of Health, Society, and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

University of California, Irvine · USHarbor–UCLA Medical Center · USUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

University of California Irvine Clinical Research Acceleration and Facilitation Team (CRAFT)-COVID Internal Grant

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emergency department (ED) visits for conditions unrelated to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic decreased during the early pandemic, raising concerns about critically ill patients forgoing care and increasing their risk of adverse outcomes. It is unclear if Hispanic and Black adults, who have a high prevalence of chronic conditions, sought medical assistance for acute emergencies during this time. This study used 2018-2020 ED visit data from the largest safety net hospital in Los Angeles County to estimate ED visit differences for cardiac emergencies, diabetic complications, and strokes, during the first societal lockdown among Black and Hispanic patients using time series analyses. Emergency department visits were lower than the expected levels during the first societal lockdown. However, after the lockdown ended, Black patients experienced a rebound in ED visits while visits for Hispanics remained depressed. Future research could identify barriers Hispanics experienced that contributed to prolonged ED avoidance.

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COVID-19EthnicityAdultCommunicable Disease ControlEmergenciesEmergency Service, HospitalHumansPandemicsAcute medical emergenciesCoronavirus pandemicEthnic minoritiesSafety net hospital

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PMID37269403

DOI10.1007/s11606-021-07304-4

PMCPMC10239213

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