Open AccessAnalysis of the evolution of patients attended in Spanish emergency departments during the first wave of the pandemic
Author(s) -
Aitor AlquézarArbé,
Òscar Miró,
Pascual Piñera,
Javier Jacob,
Alfonso Martı́n,
Iván Agra Montava,
Pere Llorens,
Sònia Jiménez,
Guillermo BurilloPutze,
E J García-Lamberechts,
Francisco Javier MartínSánchez,
Juan González del Castillo,
Red de investigación Siesta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anales del sistema sanitario de navarra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2340-3527
pISSN - 1137-6627
DOI - 10.23938/assn.0957
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , medicine , demography , health care , emergency department , public health , seroprevalence , emergency medicine , family medicine , outbreak , disease , nursing , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , immunology , economics , economic growth , antibody , serology , sociology
To describe the number of visits (total and per COVID-19) attended by the Spanish hospital emergency departments (EDs) during the first wave of the pandemic (March-April 2020) compared to the same period in 2019, and to calculate the quantitative changes in healthcare activity and investigate the possible influence of hospital size and COVID-19 seroprevalence.