Article
Impact of a high-profile sudden cardiac death on emergency department utilization: a multi-campus interrupted time series and exploratory phenotyping study.
BMC emergency medicine - 8 Aug 2026
Wang Chenxi, Cai Han, Hu Xiujuan, Liu Jiayu, Li Guanhua, Zhang Li
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: High-profile public health events can be temporally associated with significant shifts in healthcare-seeking behavior. We aimed to quantify the surge in emergency department (ED) volume and characterize the demographic shifts following a high-profile sudden cardiac death (SCD) event of a nationally prominent public figure. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted across two major hospital cohorts...
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- Humans
- Emergency Service, Hospital
- Retrospective Studies
- Emergency Room Visits
- Female
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
