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Effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on routine pediatric immunization coverage rates at the main University Hospital in Saudi Arabia
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic has had any effects on pediatric vaccination rates at the main university hospital in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A retrospective study conducted at King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia using electronic health rec...
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Saudi Medical Journal
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7804220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33130839 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.11.25457 |
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author | Alrabiaah, Abdulkarim A. Alshaer, Ahmed H. Estrella, Stephanie Mae C. Inclan, Kathrine Ann S. Aljammaz, Hadeel A. Almoosa, Khalid M. Alshuraym, Nawaf F. Temsah, Mohamad-Hani A. Alsohime, Fahad M. Alsubaie, Sara S. Bukhari, Elham E. Somily, Ali M. Alzamil, Fahad A. |
author_facet | Alrabiaah, Abdulkarim A. Alshaer, Ahmed H. Estrella, Stephanie Mae C. Inclan, Kathrine Ann S. Aljammaz, Hadeel A. Almoosa, Khalid M. Alshuraym, Nawaf F. Temsah, Mohamad-Hani A. Alsohime, Fahad M. Alsubaie, Sara S. Bukhari, Elham E. Somily, Ali M. Alzamil, Fahad A. |
author_sort | Alrabiaah, Abdulkarim A. |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic has had any effects on pediatric vaccination rates at the main university hospital in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A retrospective study conducted at King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia using electronic health records. The vaccination statuses of all children who were scheduled for vaccinations at birth and at 2, 4, 6, 9, and 12 months during March, April and May between 2017 and 2020 were included in the study with total sample of 15,870 children, and comparisons between the cohorts were performed. RESULTS: All vaccination visits during April and May 2020 were below the lower extremes except for the birth vaccinations. In March, April, and May 2020 there were respective drops in vaccination visits of 49.93%, 71.90% and 68.48% compared with the mean numbers of vaccination visits during the same months from 2017 to 2019. In comparisons of mean numbers of visits from March 2017 to May 2019 and March to May in 2020, the respective reductions in visits for birth and 2, 4, 6, 9 and 12-month vaccinations were 16.5%, 80.5%, 74.7%, 72.9%, 80.0% and 74.1%. CONCLUSIONS: The huge impact of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic on childhood vaccinations will require urgent vaccination recovery plans with innovative approaches and future action plans to maintain vaccination coverage during any subsequent pandemics. |
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spelling | pubmed-78042202021-03-11 Effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on routine pediatric immunization coverage rates at the main University Hospital in Saudi Arabia Alrabiaah, Abdulkarim A. Alshaer, Ahmed H. Estrella, Stephanie Mae C. Inclan, Kathrine Ann S. Aljammaz, Hadeel A. Almoosa, Khalid M. Alshuraym, Nawaf F. Temsah, Mohamad-Hani A. Alsohime, Fahad M. Alsubaie, Sara S. Bukhari, Elham E. Somily, Ali M. Alzamil, Fahad A. Saudi Med J Original Article OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic has had any effects on pediatric vaccination rates at the main university hospital in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A retrospective study conducted at King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia using electronic health records. The vaccination statuses of all children who were scheduled for vaccinations at birth and at 2, 4, 6, 9, and 12 months during March, April and May between 2017 and 2020 were included in the study with total sample of 15,870 children, and comparisons between the cohorts were performed. RESULTS: All vaccination visits during April and May 2020 were below the lower extremes except for the birth vaccinations. In March, April, and May 2020 there were respective drops in vaccination visits of 49.93%, 71.90% and 68.48% compared with the mean numbers of vaccination visits during the same months from 2017 to 2019. In comparisons of mean numbers of visits from March 2017 to May 2019 and March to May in 2020, the respective reductions in visits for birth and 2, 4, 6, 9 and 12-month vaccinations were 16.5%, 80.5%, 74.7%, 72.9%, 80.0% and 74.1%. CONCLUSIONS: The huge impact of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic on childhood vaccinations will require urgent vaccination recovery plans with innovative approaches and future action plans to maintain vaccination coverage during any subsequent pandemics. Saudi Medical Journal 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7804220/ /pubmed/33130839 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.11.25457 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Alrabiaah, Abdulkarim A. Alshaer, Ahmed H. Estrella, Stephanie Mae C. Inclan, Kathrine Ann S. Aljammaz, Hadeel A. Almoosa, Khalid M. Alshuraym, Nawaf F. Temsah, Mohamad-Hani A. Alsohime, Fahad M. Alsubaie, Sara S. Bukhari, Elham E. Somily, Ali M. Alzamil, Fahad A. Effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on routine pediatric immunization coverage rates at the main University Hospital in Saudi Arabia |
title | Effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on routine pediatric immunization coverage rates at the main University Hospital in Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on routine pediatric immunization coverage rates at the main University Hospital in Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on routine pediatric immunization coverage rates at the main University Hospital in Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on routine pediatric immunization coverage rates at the main University Hospital in Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on routine pediatric immunization coverage rates at the main University Hospital in Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on routine pediatric immunization coverage rates at the main university hospital in saudi arabia |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7804220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33130839 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.11.25457 |
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