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cord-313947-2u77y1gx	Gelardi, Matteo	COVID-19: what happened to all of the otolaryngology emergencies?	2020-05-18		.txt	text/plain	876	44	53	One aspect is that access to emergency care in Otolaryngology (ORL) patients has already changed in the month following the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, and, seemingly, many non-COVID illnesses have been disappearing. Table 1 shows data regarding the number of emergency department consultations by diagnosis in the 30 days preceding (from February 8th to March 8th, 2020) and 30 days following (from March 9th to April 9th, 2020) the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak at the two main tertiary referral centers in the Puglia region, as well as the percentage reduction for each diagnosis. A reduction in the number of emergency ORL consultations by 80.8% during the COVID-19 pandemic creates new paradigms for the future. At that time, proposed solutions were to increase utilization of outpatient care and to educate patients to seek a preliminary triage consultation with their family physicians; it is possible that the COVID-19 outbreak is pushing our current society in a similar direction. Reduced emergency department utilization after increased access to primary care	./cache/cord-313947-2u77y1gx.txt	./txt/cord-313947-2u77y1gx.txt