ArticlePaediatrics & child health2022
The effects of COVID-19 on poisonings in the paediatric emergency department.
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- Comparison of paediatric emergency department visits for attempted suicide, self-harm, and suicidal ideation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
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- Self-reported changes in adolescent mental health, deliberate self-harm, substance use, and help-seeking behavior before and after the COVID-19 pandemic - A Finnish time-trend study.Child and adolescent mental health · 2026Article
- Self-Harm Presentations to a Pediatric Trauma Centre During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2025Article
- Examining Pediatric Emergency Utilization Trends Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Eight-Year Cohort Study from a South Korean Tertiary Center.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Acute Poisoning in Children Presenting to the Pediatric Emergency Department: An Epidemiologic Study and the Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Toxic Exposures in Children: A Review of Emergency Department Transfers to a Tertiary Pediatric Hospital.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2025Article
- Acute cannabis intoxication among the paediatric population.Frontiers in toxicology · 2025Review
- Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown period on hospital admissions for paediatric accidents: a French nationwide study.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Observational
- Reducing the harms of cannabis use in youth post-legalization: insights from Ontario youth, parents, and service providers.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Pediatric injuries and poisonings associated with detergent packets: results from the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP), 2011-2023.Injury epidemiology · 2024Article
- Understanding youth and young adult cannabis use in Canada post-legalization: a scoping review on a public health issue.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2024Article
- Comparison of pediatric poisoning patterns before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.PloS one · 2024Observational
- Childhood Poisoning During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Turkish archives of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Characteristics of unintentional childhood injury during COVID-19: a single-center comparative study.Translational pediatrics · 2023Article
- Pediatric Hospitalizations for Unintentional Cannabis Poisonings and All-Cause Poisonings Associated With Edible Cannabis Product Legalization and Sales in Canada.JAMA health forum · 2023Article
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- The burden of poisoning in children hospitalised at a tertiary-level hospital in South Africa.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to describe the impact of the pandemic on poisoning in children under 18 years presenting to a tertiary care paediatric emergency department (ED) in Canada. Methods: We utilized the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP) surveillance data to identify children presenting to the Hospital for Sick Children for poisonings during two time periods: pre-pandemic (March 11 to December 31, 2018 and 2019) and pandemic (March 11 to December 31, 2020). Primary outcomes investigated the change in proportion for total poisonings, unintentional poisonings, recreational drug use, and intentional self-harm exposures over total ED visits. Secondarily, we examined the change in proportion of poisonings between age, sex, substance type, and admission requirement pre-pandemic versus during pandemic. Results: The proportions significantly increased for total poisonings (122.5%), unintentional poisonings (127.8%), recreational drug use (160%), and intentional self-harm poisonings (104.2%) over total ED visits. The proportions over all poisoning cases also significantly increased for cannabis (44.3%), vaping (134.6%), other recreational drugs (54.5%), multi-substance use (29.3%), and admissions due to poisonings (44.3%) during the pandemic. Conclusion: Despite an overall decrease in ED visits, there was a significant increase in poisoning presentations to our ED during the pandemic compared with pre-pandemic years. Our results will provide better insight into care delivery and public health interventions for paediatric poisonings.
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