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cord-278951-vxrwrzlj	Huang, Hsien-Hao	Declining Emergency Department Visits and Costs During the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak	2006-12-31		.txt	text/plain	2736	128	56	title: Declining Emergency Department Visits and Costs During the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak Background The immediate and long-term impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak on emergency department (ED) visits and hospital expenditures for these visits has not been thoroughly investigated. 14 This study found that a substantial mean reduction in the number of ED visits occurred during the SARS epidemic, with a peak of 51.6% and a mean of 32.1% (95% CI of the mean difference, 27.6-36.6%) during the 4-month (April-July) epidemic period in a designated SARS hospital in Taiwan ( Figure 1 ). The higher total cost for each patient during the SARS epidemic was primarily attributed to increases in the number of laboratory investigations, radiographic examinations, ancillary procedures and medications required ( Figure 5 ).	./cache/cord-278951-vxrwrzlj.txt	./txt/cord-278951-vxrwrzlj.txt