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COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2022
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Dr. Antonio J. Láinez Ramos-BossiniE-MailWebsite
Emergency radiologist, Department of Radiology, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada. Spain; Collaborating professor, department of Radiology and Physical Medicine, University of Granada, Spain; Co-leading researcher of the ‘Artificial Intelligence Applied to the Diagnosis and Prognosis of COVID-19’ project at the Distributed Computational Intelligence and Time Series Lab, University of Granada, Spain. https://dicits.ugr.es/covid19/
Interests: Emergency radiology, Artificial intelligence, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Medical education
Special Issue Information
The unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a massive production of clinical research. However, many questions remain unanswered. In this regard, there are several limitations that hinder patient management in the emergency department, a cornerstone of hospital care for COVID-19 patients. Common problems in clinical practice include logistics and triaging of patients with non-specific symptoms, early identification of high-risk patients who should require hospital admission and more aggressive therapeutic approaches, or detection of associated complications such as pulmonary embolism. Changes in virus dynamics over time limit our understanding and ability to predict these clinical concerns in real-world practice. In this context, advanced statistics and artificial intelligence models have shown promising potential to assist specialists involved in patient management in the emergency department. However, there is significant variability and limitations depending on the methodologies, purposes and populations from which data are obtained.
This special issue focuses on exploiting epidemiological data of patients admitted to the emergency department due to suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection with the aim to further our understanding of the dynamics of the virus and aid patient management in the emergency department. Notable interest topics include but are not limited to disease prevalence, diagnosis, laboratory and radiological findings, clinical management, complications and mortality. Conventional statistics and artificial intelligence methods analyzing differences between patients with overlapping symptoms, predicting patient outcomes, or assisting emergency specialists in decision-making regarding particular clinical questions which arise in daily practice are especially encouraged. In addition, studies tracking changes at different stages of the pandemic are of particular interest to gain insight into the clinical variability of COVID-19.
We welcome original articles, reviews and commentaries focused on the subject. The goal is to gain a longitudinal perspective on the challenges of the pandemics in the emergency department: how it started, the status quo and what can we expect with increasing vaccination across different countries.
Keywords
SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Emergency care, Longitudinal management, Prognosis, Artificial intelligence, Statistics, Epidemiology
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Published Papers (14 papers)
Data-driven tools for assessing and combating COVID-19 outbreaks in Brazil based on analytics and statistical methods
Data-driven tools for assessing and combating COVID-19 outbreaks in Brazil based on analytics and statistical methods
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2021.253
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
A real-world intelligent system for the diagnosis and triage of COVID-19 in the emergency department
A real-world intelligent system for the diagnosis and triage of COVID-19 in the emergency department
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2022.070
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
Artificial intelligence for the triage of COVID-19 patients at the emergency department: a systematic review
Artificial intelligence for the triage of COVID-19 patients at the emergency department: a systematic review
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2022.069
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
Pulmonary embolism at the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic. A comparative cohort study from a tertiary level hospital in southern Spain
Pulmonary embolism at the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic. A comparative cohort study from a tertiary level hospital in southern Spain
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2022.067
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic waves on pediatric emergency department patients presenting with asthma attacks in Taiwan
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic waves on pediatric emergency department patients presenting with asthma attacks in Taiwan
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2022.045
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
Sex differences in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
Sex differences in hospitalized COVID-19 patients
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2022.011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on osteoporotic vertebral fracture incidence and follow-up at the emergency department. A retrospective study of a tertiary hospital in southern Spain
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on osteoporotic vertebral fracture incidence and follow-up at the emergency department. A retrospective study of a tertiary hospital in southern Spain
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2022.002
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
Alcohol consumption and COVID-19 severity: a propensity score matched study in China
Alcohol consumption and COVID-19 severity: a propensity score matched study in China
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2021.032
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
Changes in clinical features and outcomes in three major critical diseases after COVID-19 pandemic: acute myocardial infarction, stroke, and cardiac arrest
Changes in clinical features and outcomes in three major critical diseases after COVID-19 pandemic: acute myocardial infarction, stroke, and cardiac arrest
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2021.250
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on alternatives to opioids protocol for opioid reduction in emergency department
The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on alternatives to opioids protocol for opioid reduction in emergency department
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2021.243
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
A statistical analysis for the epidemiological surveillance of COVID-19 in Chile
A statistical analysis for the epidemiological surveillance of COVID-19 in Chile
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2021.130
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
Machine learning techniques as an efficient alternative diagnostic tool for COVID-19 cases
Machine learning techniques as an efficient alternative diagnostic tool for COVID-19 cases
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2021.110
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
Factors associated with readmission to the Emergency Department in a cohort of COVID-19 hospitalized patients
Factors associated with readmission to the Emergency Department in a cohort of COVID-19 hospitalized patients
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2021.106
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
An assessment of emergency department visits for cardiovascular diseases in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Istanbul
An assessment of emergency department visits for cardiovascular diseases in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Istanbul
DOI: 10.22514/sv.2021.100
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and changes throughout the pandemic)
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