Published on in Vol 22, No 9 (2020): September

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/21562, first published .
Excess Patient Visits for Cough and Pulmonary Disease at a Large US Health System in the Months Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Time-Series Analysis

Excess Patient Visits for Cough and Pulmonary Disease at a Large US Health System in the Months Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Time-Series Analysis

Excess Patient Visits for Cough and Pulmonary Disease at a Large US Health System in the Months Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Time-Series Analysis

Joann G Elmore   1 , MD, MPH ;   Pin-Chieh Wang   1 , PhD ;   Kathleen F Kerr   2 , PhD ;   David L Schriger   3 , MD, MPH ;   Douglas E Morrison   4 , MS ;   Ron Brookmeyer   4 , PhD ;   Michael A Pfeffer   1 , MD ;   Thomas H Payne   5 , MD ;   Judith S Currier   1 , MD

1 Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

2 Department of Biostatistics, UW School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, United States

3 Department of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

4 Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

5 Department of Medicine, UW School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Joann G Elmore, MD, MPH
  • Department of Medicine
  • David Geffen School of Medicine
  • UCLA
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