ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Imaging Appropriateness in Pediatric Radiology during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Comparison with No COVID-19 Period.
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- Measuring appropriateness of diagnostic imaging: a scoping review.Insights into imaging · 2023Article
- Children infected vs. uninfected with COVID-19: Differences in parent reports of the use of mobile phones to calm children, routines, parent-child relationship, and developmental outcomes.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- COVID-19 pandemic: ethical issues and recommendations for emergency triage.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Best Practices on Radiology Department Workflow: Tips from the Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on an Italian University Hospital.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- New and Old Challenges in Pediatric Health Policies.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Comparison of Emergency Department Revisit Rates of Pediatric Patients between Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Child maltreatment and management of pediatric patients during COVID-19 pandemic: Knowledge, awareness, and attitudes among students of medicine and surgery. A survey-based analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Pediatric Radiology in Era of COVID-19, International Consensus and What Lies Beyond Pneumonia: A Review.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2021Review
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Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of accesses to the Pediatric Emergency Department (pED) in Italy sharply decreased by 30%. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how this novel setting impacted on management of children with trauma, and the use and appropriateness of imaging studies in such patients at the pED. All imaging studies performed in patients with trauma at the pED of a tertiary children's Hospital during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (between March and May 2020) were reviewed, in comparison with a control time interval (March to May 2019). In the pre-COVID control era, 669 imaging studies documented bone fractures in 145/568 children (25.5%). In the COVID-era, 79/177 (44.6%) pediatric patients showed bone fractures on 193 imaging studies. Comparative analysis shows a 71% decrease in imaging studies, and the proportion of negative imaging studies (with no evidence of bone fractures) dropped in 2020 by 19% compared to the 2019 control era (
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