Can Google® trends predict emergency department admissions in pandemic periods?

Eroğlu, Serkan Emre; Aksel, Gökhan; Altunok, İbrahim; Özdemir, Serdar; Algın, Abdullah; Akça, Hatice Şeyma; Kokulu, Kâmil

doi:10.5455/medscience.2020.08.162

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“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a respiratory RNA virus that causes severe acute respiratory failure emerged as an epidemic in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019 [1]. It turned into a pandemic, spreading across the world and negatively affecting social lives, economies, and health systems of countries [2].…”

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Evaluation of the ability of the C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio to predict short-term mortality in patients with COVID-19

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2021

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This study aimed to determine the ability of the C-reactive protein (CRP)-to-albumin ratio (CAR) to predict short-term mortality in patients with COVID-19.Material and methods: This retrospective, observational, cohort study included patients with COVID-19. The patients' demographics, clinical characteristics, CRP, albumin, CAR, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, highsensitive cardiac troponin I and all-cause mortality within 30 days after admission were noted. The receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was performed, and odds ratios (OR) were calculated to determine the discriminative ability of the parameters.Results: A total of 103 patients with a median of age of 57 (25th -75th percentiles: 32-76) years were included in the study. The rate of 30-day mortality was 4.8% for the study cohort. According to the best Youden's index, the cutoff value for CRP was determined as 66.67 (sensitivity: 80%, specificity: 78.6%), and the area under curve (AUC) value was 0.801 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 71.1-87.3). According to the best Youden's index, the cut-off value for CAR was 0.18 (sensitivity: 80%, specificity: 78.6%), and the AUC value was 0.806 (95% CI: 71.6-87.7). There was no statistically significant difference between the AUC values of CRP and CAR (DeLong equality test, p=0.938). The OR of CRP (>66.67 mg/L) and CAR (>0.18) for 30-day mortality were 14.667 (95% CI: 1.555-138.299) and 13.818 (95% CI: 1.468-130.076), respectively.Conclusion: CAR was not useful in predicting 30-day mortality in patients with COVID-19. The calculation of CAR rather than CRP had no clinically significant contribution to the prediction of 30-day mortality in this patient group.

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Evaluation of the ability of the C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio to predict short-term mortality in patients with COVID-19

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Algın

2021

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“…Although the first case was seen in our country and the declaration of the pandemic was March 11, 2020, the effects of the government's reactions and measures on the social behavior began in January 2020. 3 For this reason, the first months of 2020 were also evaluated within the effects of the pandemic. To understand the impact of the pandemic, the data for 2020 and the average data for 2019 and 2018 were compared.…”

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“…2 The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and the first case was seen in Turkey on the same day. 3 Since then, measures taken by governments and individuals have affected the behavioral characteristics of societies. In the peak periods of the disease, the hospital admissions of all non-COVID-19 elective cases were postponed.…”

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Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Presentations with Mushroom Poisoning: A Report from Turkey

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Background In this study, we investigated the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on emergency department admissions with mushroom poisoning in a tertiary hospital in Turkey. Materials and Methods This study was conducted as a retrospective cohort study to evaluate the data of patients admitted to the emergency department between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2020. The patients diagnosed with the International Classification of Diseases-10 code T62.0 concerning the toxic effect of ingested mushrooms were identified through the computerized medical and laboratory record system of the hospital. The patients' demographic data, presentation seasons, laboratory findings, emergency department outcomes, and mortality due to mushroom poisoning were obtained. To reveal the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department presentations with mushroom poisoning, the means of the pre-pandemic period (2018–2019) and the pandemic period (2020) were compared. Results The data of a total of 171 patients were included in the final analysis. The number of patients diagnosed with the toxic effect of ingested mushrooms was 96 in 2018, 61 in 2019, and 14 in 2020. There was a 5.6-fold decrease during pandemic period in the number of patients presenting to the emergency department with mushroom poisoning. Conclusion The decrease in mushroom poisoning cases may be related to the changes in the eating habits of individuals during the pandemic and our study being conducted in a metropolitan city. We recommend that multicenter studies be performed to verify the data obtained from our study and increase their generalizability.

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“…In December 2019, it is reported a febrile respiratory tract illness of unknown origin from Wuhan. Bronchoalveolar lavage of the patients isolated a novel strain of coronavirus named as SARS-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) as the pathogen (1). The World Health Organization (WHO) named pulmonary infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 as coronavirus disease 2019 (CO-VID-19) (1).…”

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Patients Non-Covid-19 Diagnosis in Pandemic Clinics: Three Case Reports

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Pandemi süreciyle birlikte klinisyenlerin toraks görüntülesine başvuru sıklığı artmıştır. Bu yazımızda pandemi kliniklerinde COVİD-19 dışı tanı konulan üç olgu sunulmuştur. Otuzüç yaşında erkek hasta pandemi kliniğine iki gündür devam eden göğüs ağrısı nefes darlığı şikayeti ile başvurdu. Toraks görüntülemesinde geniş pnömotoraks izlendi. Hastaya tüp torakostomi uygulandı. Hasta 14 gün izlem sonrası taburcu edildi. Otuzbir yaşında kadın hasta pandemi kliniğine iki haftadır devam eden efor dispnesi, öksürük, göğüs ağrısı ve karın ağrısı şikayeti ile başvurdu. Toraks görüntülemesinde massif efüzyon izlendi. Ileri tetkikler sonucu hastaya metastatic kolon carsinomu tanısı konuldu. Onsekiz yaşında erkek hasta pandemi kliniğine bir gündür devam eden göğüs ağrısı nedeniyle kabul edildi. Toraks görüntülemesinde mediastinal amfizem izlendi. Pandemik süreç sırasında artan torasik görüntüleme sayısı, asemptomatik ve subklinik torasik patolojilerin görülme sıklığında artışa neden olacaktır. İnsidanslardaki bu artış geniş epidemiyolojik çalışmalar ile ortaya konulmalıdır.

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Can Google® trends predict emergency department admissions in pandemic periods?

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Evaluation of the ability of the C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio to predict short-term mortality in patients with COVID-19

Evaluation of the ability of the C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio to predict short-term mortality in patients with COVID-19

Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Presentations with Mushroom Poisoning: A Report from Turkey

Patients Non-Covid-19 Diagnosis in Pandemic Clinics: Three Case Reports

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