46 Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department Predict Hospitalization and Critical Illness: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Abstract:Study Objective: SARS-CoV-2 was declared a pandemic March 11, 2020 by the WHO. Adult health care systems faced tremendous challenges in volume and acuity; however, morbidity and mortality among children is low and pediatric emergency departments (EDs) have been spared the same challenges. Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 patients and efforts to curb disease transmission affected health care delivery in the United States causing negative effects on the delivery of routine primary care, the closures of schools, the imple… Show more
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