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The impact of COVID-19 epidemic on emergency department visits of older patients in Taiwan

2022-07-06

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<h4>Background: </h4> The number of emergency department (ED) visits has significantly declined since the COVID-19 pandemic. In Taiwan, an aging society, it is unknown whether older adults are accessing emergency care during the COVID-19 epidemic. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the ED visits and triage, admission, and intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalization of the geriatric...

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Literature Corpus work: a231076f-318c-5465-8ef8-45a628a1f1bb
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1599905/v1

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