Tackling Another COVID-19 Pandemic Disparity - Distance from Major Academic Medical Centers Encumbers Emergency and Critical Care Physician Surge Capacity.

Tackling Another COVID-19 Pandemic Disparity - Distance from Major Academic Medical Centers Encumbers Emergency and Critical Care Physician Surge Capacity. Acad Emerg Med. 2020 Sep 04;: Authors: Rodriguez RM Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of deficiencies in our US health care system, most notably the disproportionately poor health care outcomes in Latinx and African-American populations.1-3 My experiences over the past two months have shed light on another disparity - the enormous differential in emergency and critical care physician surge capacity between cities with robust medical academic institutions and communities that are situated far away from large medical schools. PMID: 32886821 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research