Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36950039›Full record

ArticleInfluenza and other respiratory viruses2023

Acute respiratory infection emergency access in a tertiary care children hospital in Italy, prior and after the SARS-CoV-2 emergence.

Marta Ciofi Degli Atti, Caterina Rizzo, Carmen D'Amore, Lucilla Ravà, Antonino Reale, Maria Antonietta Barbieri, Paola Bernaschi, Cristina Russo, Alberto Villani, Carlo Federico Perno and 1 more

Open access · goldFull text read
In one paragraph

Article in Influenza and other respiratory viruses, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Observational
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

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marta Ciofi Degli AttiClinical Pathways and Epidemiology Unit, Medical Direction Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.
Caterina RizzoDepartment of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery University of Pisa Pisa Italy.
Carmen D'AmoreClinical Pathways and Epidemiology Unit, Medical Direction Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2874-7563
Lucilla RavàClinical Pathways and Epidemiology Unit, Medical Direction Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.
Antonino RealePediatric Emergency Department Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.
Maria Antonietta BarbieriPediatric Emergency Department Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.
Paola BernaschiMicrobiology and Diagnostic Immunology Unit Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9756-2541
Cristina RussoMicrobiology and Diagnostic Immunology Unit Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.
Alberto VillaniPediatric Emergency Department Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.
Carlo Federico PernoMicrobiology and Diagnostic Immunology Unit Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.
Massimiliano RaponiMedical Direction Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS Rome Italy.
Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital · ITUniversity of Pisa · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the epidemiology of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in children. The aims of the present study were to describe the epidemiological trend of ARI emergency visits and virology results prior and after the SARS-CoV-2 emergence and to estimate the association of ARI emergency department (ED) visits with respiratory viruses. Methods: This study was conducted at the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, a tertiary care children's hospital in the Lazio Region, Italy. The demographic and clinical information of children who accessed the ED and were diagnosed with ARI from January 1, 2018 to June 30, 2022 was retrospectively extracted from the electronic health records. The observed temporal trends in viruses diagnosed from respiratory samples were compared with the number of ARI ED visits over the same period through a multivariable linear regression model. Results: During the study period, there were 72,959 ED admissions for ARIs and 33,355 respiratory samples resulted positive for viruses. Prior to the pandemic, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza had a clear seasonal pattern, which was interrupted in 2020. In 2021-2022, RSV reached the highest peak observed during the study period, whereas influenza activity was minimal. The peaks of ARI ED visits corresponded to peaks of influenza, RSV, and rhinovirus in the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 seasons, to SARS-CoV-2 and rhinovirus in 2020, and to RSV and parainfluenza in 2021-2022. Conclusions: ARI resulting in ED visits should be included in the ARI disease burden measurement for a more accurate measure of the impact of preventive measures.

Indexed as

COVID-19Influenza, HumanRespiratory Syncytial Virus, HumanRespiratory Syncytial Virus InfectionsRespiratory Tract InfectionsVirusesChildHospitalsHumansInfantPandemicsRetrospective StudiesSARS-CoV-2Tertiary Health Careacute respiratory infectionschildrenCOVID‐19 pandemicemergency visitviral infections

Identifiers

PMID36950039
PMCPMC10026100
OpenAlexW4327956074

What OpenQuestion holds

Textfull text, public
LicenceCC BY
measurements read38
identifiers read1
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.