Acute Coronary Syndrome During the Era of COVID-19: Perspective and Implications Using Google Trends.

Acute Coronary Syndrome During the Era of COVID-19: Perspective and Implications Using Google Trends.

Publication date: Jul 01, 2024

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) hospital admissions decreased during the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. Information is limited on how Google searches were related to patients’ behaviour during this time. We examined de-identified data from 2019 through 2020 regarding the following monthly items: (i) admissions for ACS from the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System; (ii) out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) from the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) public dataset; and (iii) Google searches for “chest pain,” “coronavirus,” “chest pressure,” and “hospital safe” from Google Trends. We analyzed the trends for ACS admissions, OHCA, and Google searches. During the early months of the first COVID-19 outbreak, the following occurred: (i) Veterans Affairs data showed a significant reduction in ACS admissions at a national and regional (Florida) level; (ii) the NEMSIS database showed a marked increase in OHCA at a national level; and (iii) Google Trends showed a significant increase in the before-mentioned Google searches at a national and regional level. ACS hospital admissions decreased during the beginning of the pandemic, likely owing to delayed healthcare utilization secondary to patients fear of acquiring a COVID-19 infection. Concordantly, the volume of Google searches for hospital safety and ACS symptoms increased, along with OHCA events, during the same time. Our results suggest that Google Trends may be a useful tool to predict patients’ behaviour and increase preparedness for future events, but statistical strategies to establish association are needed.

Concepts Keywords
Coronavirus Acs
Florida Acute
Google Admissions
Monthly Coronary
Veterans Covid
Google
Hospital
Increase
Level
National
Ohca
Searches
Showed
Syndrome
Trends

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH Acute Coronary Syndrome
disease MESH COVID-19
disease VO time
disease VO monthly
disease MESH out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
disease MESH Emergency
disease MESH chest pain
disease MESH infection
disease VO volume

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