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cord-290325-vozu14wg	O’Brien, Ciara M.	Collateral damage: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on acute abdominal emergency presentations	2020-08-20		.txt	text/plain	2364	126	50	This information has important public-health implications, highlighting the need to educate patients to continue to present to hospital services during such crises, including if a purported second wave of COVID-19 arises. In this observational study, we first wished to quantify changes in the overall volume of CT scans performed for all causes of acute abdominal presentations from the emergency department (ED), following the pandemic announcement. We sought to determine differences in the types of presenting illnesses, the severity of illness, and in the rate of resultant surgical intervention during the pandemic to better understand patterns of care seeking under COVID. We carried out a retrospective, observational cohort study comparing two groups of patients attending the ED at our tertiary-care academic hospital, during two equivalent time intervals, 1 year apart (Table 1) The reports were initially categorized as either "no abnormality found" or as having a cause identified for their presenting symptoms.	./cache/cord-290325-vozu14wg.txt	./txt/cord-290325-vozu14wg.txt