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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Primary Care Referral Patterns and Resource Utilization in a Hospital Emergency Department: A Comparative Pre- and Post-Pandemic Study

2026-04-28

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<h4>Background: </h4> The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted healthcare utilization patterns at both primary care (PC) and hospital emergency department (ED) levels. This study aimed to assess the impact of the pandemic on referral patterns from PC to a hospital ED and on the resource consumption associated with those referrals. <h4>Methods:</h4> describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. <h4>Met...

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Literature Corpus work: 9c3db32a-b620-5785-bd2f-694a065c7e81
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202604.1942.v1

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