Open AccessDo surgical emergencies stay at home? Observations from the first United States Coronavirus epicenter
Author(s) -
Caroline Dong,
Anna Liveris,
Edwin R. Lewis,
Smita Mascharak,
Edward Chao,
Srinivas H. Reddy,
Sheldon Teperman,
John McNelis,
Melvin E. Stone
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.25
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 2163-0763
pISSN - 2163-0755
DOI - 10.1097/ta.0000000000003202
Subject(s) - medicine , public health , pandemic , emergency medicine , observational study , health care , general surgery , pediatrics , family medicine , disease , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , nursing , economics , economic growth
During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, New York instituted a statewide stay-at-home mandate to lower viral transmission. While public health guidelines advised continued provision of timely care for patients, disruption of safety-net health care and public fear have been proposed to be related to indirect deaths because of delays in presentation. We hypothesized that admissions for emergency general surgery (EGS) diagnoses would decrease during the pandemic and that mortality for these patients would increase.