ArticleEuropean journal of pediatrics2021
The impact of COVID-19 on a tertiary care pediatric emergency department.
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- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Emergency Medicine: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Pooled it
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- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the volume and diagnoses of patients admitted to the paediatric emergency department: a retrospective analysis from a third-level hospital in Northeastern Mexico.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Clinical Manifestations of Acute COVID-19 in Previously Healthy Pediatric Patients Diagnosed by Rapid Antigen Screening in a Community-Based, Outpatient Primary Care Pediatrics Practice.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Pediatric respiratory infectious emergencies: clinical profiles and outcomes.Journal of medicine and life · 2024Article
- The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric emergency department utilization in three regions in Switzerland.International journal of emergency medicine · 2024Article
- What was the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on unintentional injuries, in Canada and globally? A scoping review investigating how lockdown measures impacted the global burden of unintentional injury.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Analysis of factors conditioning inappropriate visits in a paediatric emergency department.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
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- Impact of the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Emergency Department Attendance in a Tertiary Center in South Italy: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Hypothetical Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Admissions: Evidence from Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model Method.The Eurasian journal of medicine · 2023Article
- Prevalence of Respiratory Infections during the 2018-2020 Period in the Paediatric Population of Primary Care Centres in Central Catalonia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Trends in gastrointestinal disease hospitalizations and outcomes during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.World journal of gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Comparison of the Clinical Characteristics of Pediatric Poisoning Patients Who Visited Emergency Department Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of Korean medical science · 2022Article
- The Effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on emergency service home service calls due to home accidents in children aged 0-6 in Sakarya, Türkiye?Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi · 2022Article
- The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the characteristics of patients presenting to the pediatric ocular emergency department in Türkiye: Demographic and diagnoses.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2022Article
- 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
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Abstract
The restrictive measures required to face the recent outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may impact patterns of healthcare utilization. Our aim was to provide an insight into the change in the use of a pediatric emergency department (ED) during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The medical records of the children seen in our pediatric ED during March and April 2020 were retrospectively reviewed. Consequently, these were compared to the medical records of 2018 and 2019 from the same time period and from other control periods (January-February 2019 and 2020, and July-August 2018 and 2019). The total number of ED visits declined by 73% from 2019 to 2020 (3051 vs 818). Significant variations were observed in the distribution of children between triage categories: the proportion of patients who was given a green-code showed a 0.59-fold decrease in comparison to 2019 (95% CI 0.5-0.69), while a relative increase in the proportion of yellow codes was observed (OR 1.46, 95% CI 1.2-1.78).Conclusion: Quarantine measures significantly impacted on the total number of patients and on the reasons for visiting them in our pediatric ED. This substantial decrease in pediatric care may either be due to lower rates of acute infections because of social distancing, or to parents' or caregivers' reticence to risk exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in a health-care setting. What is known: • A recent outbreak of a novel coronavirus responsible for a severe acute respiratory syndrome is spreading globally. • Restrictive measures may impact patterns of healthcare utilization, as observed in other previous outbreaks. What is new: • This study shows significant variations in the distribution of children among triage categories during the COVID-19 pandemic. • Discharge diagnosis was significantly different as well, in particular a relative increase in the proportion of children presenting with traumatic injuries and a decrease of viral infections were observed.
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