Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34704279›Full record

ArticleActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2022

Characteristics of COVID-19 patients up to 6 months of age admitted to a paediatric emergency department.

Tommaso Bellini, Gioacchino Andrea Rotulo, Samuele Caruggi, Sabina Carta, Irene Bonato, Emanuela Piccotti

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Tommaso BelliniPediatric Emergency Room and Emergency Medicine Unit, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, IRCCS, Genoa, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7559-0111
Gioacchino Andrea RotuloClinical and Research Unit of Clinical Immunology and Vaccinology, Academic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Bambino Gesù Children Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Samuele CaruggiPediatric Emergency Room and Emergency Medicine Unit, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, IRCCS, Genoa, Italy.
Sabina CartaPediatric Emergency Room and Emergency Medicine Unit, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, IRCCS, Genoa, Italy.
Irene BonatoPediatric Emergency Room and Emergency Medicine Unit, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, IRCCS, Genoa, Italy.
Emanuela PiccottiPediatric Emergency Room and Emergency Medicine Unit, Giannina Gaslini Children Hospital, IRCCS, Genoa, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Very young age could be a potential risk factor for community-acquired severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, due to immature immune systems. We retrospectively enrolled 39 infants up to 6 months of age who had presented to our tertiary Italian children's hospital emergency room between 9 March 2020 and 8 March 2021 and tested positive for the virus. Of those, 38 had a non-specific mild or asymptomatic clinical course and only one patient was admitted to intensive care with severe symptoms. We concluded that very young infants with COVID-19 had a generally favourable disease course.

Indexed as

COVID-19ChildEmergency Service, HospitalHospitalizationHumansInfantRetrospective StudiesSARS-CoV-2asymptomaticdisease courseemergency roominfantspandemic

Identifiers

PMID34704279
PMCPMC8653029

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.