Mass General: Emergency Department Doctors Ask - 'Where Did All the Patients Go?'
December 02, 2020
December 02, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 2 -- Massachusetts General Hospital issued the following news release:
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England, emergency department visits for medical emergencies - including psychiatric problems, trauma and heart attacks - declined by nearly a third, raising concerns among clinicians that critically ill patients were not seeking the care they needed for fear of coronavirus infection.
Comparing emergency department (ED) . . .
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England, emergency department visits for medical emergencies - including psychiatric problems, trauma and heart attacks - declined by nearly a third, raising concerns among clinicians that critically ill patients were not seeking the care they needed for fear of coronavirus infection.
Comparing emergency department (ED) . . .