Admissions to Veterans Affairs Hospitals for Emergency Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Aaron Baum; Mark D Schwartz

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.9972

Admissions to Veterans Affairs Hospitals for Emergency Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA. 2020 Jul 7;324(1):96-99. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.9972.

Authors

Aaron Baum¹, Mark D Schwartz²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health System Design and Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
² Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York.

Abstract

To assess the effect of COVID-19 on health care, this study compares admissions data from the Veterans Affairs system for overall admissions and for 6 common emergencies immediately before and for 6 weeks during the pandemic.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Emergency Service, Hospital / statistics & numerical data*
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data*
Hospitals, Veterans / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
SARS-CoV-2
United States
Veterans