Abstract

Purpose: The aim was to determine the variation in emergency service attendance occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic by assessing the monthly attendance distribution, monthly trends in emergency service attendance, hourly emergency service attendance trends and triage areas of patients attending the emergency service.
 Methods: This retrospective, descriptive research was completed based on records for 608,837 patients attending the emergency service of XX State Hospital from 11.09.2018 to 11.09.2021. Patient data for 18 months until the COVID-19 pandemic declaration on 11.03.2020 and 18 months after the pandemic declaration were assessed with the Joinpoint regression analysis program to analyze attendance. Analyses were completed at P

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