Changes in hospital volumes for common medical emergencies during COVID-19

What The Study Did:

Whether the number of cases at hospitals of common medical emergencies such as heart attack and appendicitis have changed during the COVID-19 pandemic was investigated in this study.

Authors:

Melanie Hayden Gephart, M.D., M.A.S., of the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, is the corresponding author.

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