id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-286576-nirg7jdq Wang, Jiangshan Separate Fever Clinics Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Offload Emergency Resources: Analysis from a large tertiary hospital in China 2020-04-06 .txt text/plain 3345 205 60 The main manifestations of this disease include acute fever, cough and dyspnea [4] , thus emergency departments (EDs) have become the primary facilities providing initial diagnoses and medical care for potential COVID-19 patients. Critically ill patients were identified according to the following criteria: (1) patients transferred to resuscitation rooms in the ED from the FC after initial screening and initial treatment; (2) APACHE II score ≥ 8; (3) patients who were ruled out the possibility of COVID-19 pneumonia [11] . The number of in-hospital deaths within seven days for critically ill patients initially presenting to the FC was 9 of 29 and 21 of 38 before and after the outbreak, respectively (p<0.05) (see Table 3 ). We found that after the outbreak, more patients received treatment in FC, critically ill patients received initial rescue management in the FC, and, most importantly, no confirmed COVID-19 patients were transferred to the ED and no other patients, doctors or nurses were infected in the hospital. ./cache/cord-286576-nirg7jdq.txt ./txt/cord-286576-nirg7jdq.txt