Emergency Department

Receiving care at a primary care clinic appears to lower nonemergent ED visits among women experiencing homelessness, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

Patients with migraine who were given opioids in the ED were more likely to return to the ED in the next 6 months compared with patients who were not prescribed opioids, according to findings from single-center, retrospective cohort study.

ED visits for violence-related injuries appeared to decrease during the UK’s COVID-19 lockdown, according to study results conducted in Wales and published in JAMA.

Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Health System observed that a single troponin test at ED admission for patients with suspected ACS may be enough to rule out acute MI and reduce hospital stay.

Nearly one-third of patients with severe COVID-19 had PTSD after acute infection, according to results of a research letter published in JAMA Psychiatry.

The COVID-19 pandemic appeared to shift ED use and priorities for care, particularly related to mental health, substance use and violence risk screening and prevention, according to study results published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic children were less likely to undergo radiography, CT, ultrasonography and an MRI during ED visits than non-Hispanic white children, an analysis of more than 13 million ED visits showed.

While the number of visits to one ED declined overall among children in the early months of the pandemic, the proportion of trauma-related visits increased significantly, researchers reported.

More than 40% of antibiotics prescribed in Veterans Health Administration EDs and urgent care centers for acute respiratory infections were prescribed with an inappropriate indication, according to a study.

Time from chest pain onset to ED presentation did not differ between patients who had a prior acute MI and those who did not, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.