ArticleJournal of Korean medical science2021
Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization and Coronavirus Disease in Daegu, Korea.
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- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Emergency Medicine: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Pooled it
- Massive Closures of Pediatric Clinics and an Exodus of Pediatricians in Korea During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Career Paths Did Closed-Down Pediatricians Choose?Journal of Korean medical science · 2025Article
- Foreign body ingestion trends in children in the Daegu-Kyungpook Province, Korea before and during the COVID-19 period: a repeated cross-sectional study.Translational pediatrics · 2023Article
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department patient volume and flow: Two countries, two hospitals.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2023Observational
- Changes in pediatric emergency department visits during a COVID-19 lockdown period: An exhaustive single-center analysis.Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie · 2022Observational
- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children Visiting Emergency Department for Mental Illness: A Multicenter Database Analysis from Korea.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- School closures during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2021Article
- Comparative changes in emergency department patient attendance at the pediatric emergency hospital during the first wave between 2019 and 2020.Revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publicaArticle
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Abstract
backgroundLimited data exist on children's utilization of the emergency department (ED) in the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Thus, we aimed to examine ED utilization among pediatric patients and the impact of COVID-19 in one large city affected by the outbreak.
methodsThis retrospective study included data from six EDs in Daegu, Korea. We compared the demographic and clinical data of patients presenting to the ED during the COVID-19 pandemic (February 1st-June 30th 2020) with those of patients who visited the ED in this period during 2018 and 2019.
resultsFewer patients, particularly children visited the EDs during the study period in 2020 than those in the previous (2018/2019) year period: the number of adult patient decreased by 46.4% and children by 76.9%. Although the number of patients increased from the lowest point of the decrease in March 2020, the number of pediatric patients visiting the ED remained less than half (45.2%) in June 2020 compared with that of previous years. The proportion of patients with severe conditions increased in adults, infants, and school-aged children, and consequently resulted in increased ambulance use and higher hospitalization rates. Fewer infants and young children but more school-aged children visited the ED with febrile illnesses in 2020 than in 2018/2019.
conclusionThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to a substantial decrease in pediatric ED utilization. These findings can help reallocate human and material resources in the EDs during infectious disease outbreaks.
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