Clinical and Operational Changes in ED Management of COVID-19 The following is a summary of “Correlates of improved outcomes in patients with COVID-19 treated in US emergency departments,” published in the December 2024 issue of Emergency Medicine by Slutske et al. Researchers conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the impact of therapeutic advances during the COVID-19 pandemic on clinically relevant metrics of emergency care. Physician's Weekly Admin Physician's Weekly

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Investigators concluded the operational and clinical outcomes of ED-based treatment for individuals with COVID-19 improved in the first 2 years of the pandemic, likely due to the development of vaccines, therapeutic agents, enhanced healthcare delivery, and increased innate immunity. 

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