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ecj-13407	Lippi, Giuseppe; Ferrari, Anna; Maccagnani, Antonio; Paolillo, Ciro	Association between “D-dimeritis” in the emergency department and COVID-19 hospital burden	2025	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2300	93	44	Now that the clinical pressure of COVID-19 on healthcare sys- tems has eased considerably due to herd immunity (triggered by natural infection, vaccination, or both), better healthcare prepared- ness for pandemic emergencies and improved therapeutic manage- ment,8 it is predictable that the number of test requests for D-dimer from Emergency Departments (EDs) (i.e., the healthcare site where the vast majority of patients with more aggressive forms of SARS-CoV-2 infection are initially admitted) may have experi- enced a reasonable decrease. This peak of test requests was then followed by a gradual decline, with the number of aggregate D-dimer test requests in 2024 being almost three times lower than in the last year before the pandemic (i.e., 2019).	cache/ecj-13407.pdf	txt/ecj-13407.txt