Presentations to the emergency department in Bologna, Italy, during COVID-19 outbreak

The Emilia Romagna (ER) region, Italy, in March 2020 has seen one of the largest and most serious clusters of COVID-19 in the world. In the period of 30 January to 31 May 2020, the number of paediatric emergency department presentations in Bologna, ER, decreased by 50% compared with the same period...

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Autores principales: Masetti, Riccardo, Corsini, Ilaria, Leardini, Davide, Lanari, Marcello, Pession, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Original Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7372170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000748
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author Masetti, Riccardo
Corsini, Ilaria
Leardini, Davide
Lanari, Marcello
Pession, Andrea
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description The Emilia Romagna (ER) region, Italy, in March 2020 has seen one of the largest and most serious clusters of COVID-19 in the world. In the period of 30 January to 31 May 2020, the number of paediatric emergency department presentations in Bologna, ER, decreased by 50% compared with the same period of 2019. Visits declined for every age group, with a decrease of 35%, 55% and 46% for the three age groups 0–2, 2–10 and 10–14 years, respectively. The admission rate increased from 5% to 13%. Fewer non-urgent attendances, alongside a decrease in seasonal infections due to the lockdown, appear to be the main reasons.
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spelling pubmed-73721702020-07-21 Presentations to the emergency department in Bologna, Italy, during COVID-19 outbreak Masetti, Riccardo Corsini, Ilaria Leardini, Davide Lanari, Marcello Pession, Andrea BMJ Paediatr Open Original Research Letter The Emilia Romagna (ER) region, Italy, in March 2020 has seen one of the largest and most serious clusters of COVID-19 in the world. In the period of 30 January to 31 May 2020, the number of paediatric emergency department presentations in Bologna, ER, decreased by 50% compared with the same period of 2019. Visits declined for every age group, with a decrease of 35%, 55% and 46% for the three age groups 0–2, 2–10 and 10–14 years, respectively. The admission rate increased from 5% to 13%. Fewer non-urgent attendances, alongside a decrease in seasonal infections due to the lockdown, appear to be the main reasons. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7372170/ /pubmed/34192170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000748 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ .
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topic Original Research Letter
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000748
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