Emergency Department Admissions During COVID-19: Implications from the 2002–2004 SARS Epidemic

摘要

The emergency department (ED) represents a frontline in the response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. This is similar to the 2002–2004 SARS-CoV-1 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus) epidemic, where EDs played an important role in triage and screening of patients presenting to hospitals. In this letter, we review the impact of the SARS epidemic on hospital ED admissions, and discuss implications for COVID-19 to enable healthcare systems to better anticipate and manage the effects of the current pandemic on the ED.