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Dreyer, Hanlie
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De Oliveira, Katya
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Lalloo, Vidya
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Engelbrecht, Andreas
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2022-01-13T06:12:48Z |
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2022-01-13T06:12:48Z |
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2022-03 |
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INTRODUCTION : In previous pandemics such as the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, it has been observed that patients with non-pandemic related complaints, delay their presentation to hospital. Similarly, delayed presentation of patients with chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic has been documented. This qualitative study identified the COVID-19 related reasons which lead to this delay.
METHODS : A qualitative study based on 10 individual patient interviews. Half of these were conducted at a public hospital emergency centre (EC) and the other half at a private EC.
RESULTS : A variety of psychosocial factors were identified as themes for delayed presentation. Interestingly, the fear of contracting COVID-19 at the hospital was not found to be an important theme in our study. Rather, confusion around hospital protocols during the pandemic was identified as a recurrent theme.
DISCUSSION : This study found that confusion about COVID-19 hospital protocols was the major pandemic related delaying factor. A number of themes unrelated to COVID-19 were also identified. |
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Family Medicine |
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hj2022 |
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https://www.elsevier.com/locate/afjem |
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Dreyer, H., De Oliveira, K., Lalloo, V. & Engelbrecht, A. 2022, 'A qualitative study of COVID-19 related reasons for delayed presentation of patients with chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic', African Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 34-38. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2211-419X (online) |
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10.1016/j.afjem.2021.10.002 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83301 |
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en |
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Elsevier |
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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. |
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dc.subject |
COVID-19 pandemic |
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) |
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Chest pain |
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Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) |
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Delayed presentation |
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Qualitative study |
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dc.title |
A qualitative study of COVID-19 related reasons for delayed presentation of patients with chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic |
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Article |
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