F Javier Montero-Pérez, Ángela María Cobos Requena, Juan González Del Castillo, Javier Jacob, Eric Jorge García-Lamberechts, Pascual Piñera Salmerón, Aitor Alquézar-Arbé, Sira Aguiló, Cesáreo Fernández Alonso, Guillermo Burillo-Putze, María Calderón Caro, Ángel Iván Díaz Salado, Enrique Martín Mojarro, Patricia Eiroa-Hernández, Patricia Parra-Esquivel, Juan José López Pérez, Martín Ruiz Grinspan, Ivet Gina Osorio Quispe, Matilde González Tejera, Leticia Serrano Lázaro, Begoña Espinosa Fernández, Lidia Fuentes, Coral Suero Méndez, María Del Valle Toro-Gallardo, Fahd Beddar Chaib, Paula Pedraza Ramírez, Òscar Miró
OBJECTIVES: To analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Spanish emergency department (ED) care for patients aged 65 years or older during the first wave vs. a pre-pandemic period. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective cross-sectional study of a COVID-19 portion of the EDEN project (Emergency Department and Elder Needs). The EDEN-COVID cohort included all patients aged 65 years or more who were treated in 52 EDs on 7 consecutive days early in the pandemic. We analyzed care variables, discharge diagnoses, use of diagnostic and therapeutic resources, use of observation units, need for hospitalization, rehospitalization, and mortality...
August 2023: Emergencias: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Medicina de Emergencias