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Has Otitis Media Disappeared during COVID-19 Pandemic? A Fortuitus Effect of Domestic Confinement
Background: To measure patient flow at our Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) during the Italian lockdown, with particular care in terms of otolaryngological (ENT)-related diagnoses. Methods: A retrospective evaluation of electronic charts of children admitted to our PED in the City Center of Mila...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8267642/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34199138 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132851 |
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author | Torretta, Sara Cantoni, Barbara Bertolozzi, Giuseppe Capaccio, Pasquale Milani, Gregorio Paolo Pignataro, Lorenzo Aleo, Sebastiano Marchisio, Paola |
author_facet | Torretta, Sara Cantoni, Barbara Bertolozzi, Giuseppe Capaccio, Pasquale Milani, Gregorio Paolo Pignataro, Lorenzo Aleo, Sebastiano Marchisio, Paola |
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description | Background: To measure patient flow at our Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) during the Italian lockdown, with particular care in terms of otolaryngological (ENT)-related diagnoses. Methods: A retrospective evaluation of electronic charts of children admitted to our PED in the City Center of Milan (Italy) for any disease. The outcome was to compare distribution of diagnoses performed at our PED during 21 February–3 May 2019 (period 1) to 21 February–3 May 2020 (period 2). Results: A total of 4538 children were evaluated during period 1 compared to 1310 during period 2. A statistically significant overall effect on diagnosis between the study periods was attested (p-value < 0.001; pseudo R2 = 0.010), ENT-related diagnoses being more frequently documented in period 1 (80.4% vs. 19.5%; p-value < 0.001), as well as those related to middle ear infections (92.8% vs. 7.2%; p-value < 0.001). Non-complicated acute otitis media more frequently occurred in period 1 (92.0% vs. 8.0%; p-value < 0.001); no significant difference in the number of complicated middle ear infections occurred (95.8% vs. 4.2%). Conclusions: The exceptional circumstances of the Italian lockdown resulted in a significant decrease in patients’ attendance to our PED, especially when considering diagnoses related to any ENT disorder, middle ear disease, and non-complicated middle ear infection. |
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spelling | pubmed-82676422021-07-10 Has Otitis Media Disappeared during COVID-19 Pandemic? A Fortuitus Effect of Domestic Confinement Torretta, Sara Cantoni, Barbara Bertolozzi, Giuseppe Capaccio, Pasquale Milani, Gregorio Paolo Pignataro, Lorenzo Aleo, Sebastiano Marchisio, Paola J Clin Med Brief Report Background: To measure patient flow at our Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) during the Italian lockdown, with particular care in terms of otolaryngological (ENT)-related diagnoses. Methods: A retrospective evaluation of electronic charts of children admitted to our PED in the City Center of Milan (Italy) for any disease. The outcome was to compare distribution of diagnoses performed at our PED during 21 February–3 May 2019 (period 1) to 21 February–3 May 2020 (period 2). Results: A total of 4538 children were evaluated during period 1 compared to 1310 during period 2. A statistically significant overall effect on diagnosis between the study periods was attested (p-value < 0.001; pseudo R2 = 0.010), ENT-related diagnoses being more frequently documented in period 1 (80.4% vs. 19.5%; p-value < 0.001), as well as those related to middle ear infections (92.8% vs. 7.2%; p-value < 0.001). Non-complicated acute otitis media more frequently occurred in period 1 (92.0% vs. 8.0%; p-value < 0.001); no significant difference in the number of complicated middle ear infections occurred (95.8% vs. 4.2%). Conclusions: The exceptional circumstances of the Italian lockdown resulted in a significant decrease in patients’ attendance to our PED, especially when considering diagnoses related to any ENT disorder, middle ear disease, and non-complicated middle ear infection. MDPI 2021-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8267642/ /pubmed/34199138 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132851 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Torretta, Sara Cantoni, Barbara Bertolozzi, Giuseppe Capaccio, Pasquale Milani, Gregorio Paolo Pignataro, Lorenzo Aleo, Sebastiano Marchisio, Paola Has Otitis Media Disappeared during COVID-19 Pandemic? A Fortuitus Effect of Domestic Confinement |
title | Has Otitis Media Disappeared during COVID-19 Pandemic? A Fortuitus Effect of Domestic Confinement |
title_full | Has Otitis Media Disappeared during COVID-19 Pandemic? A Fortuitus Effect of Domestic Confinement |
title_fullStr | Has Otitis Media Disappeared during COVID-19 Pandemic? A Fortuitus Effect of Domestic Confinement |
title_full_unstemmed | Has Otitis Media Disappeared during COVID-19 Pandemic? A Fortuitus Effect of Domestic Confinement |
title_short | Has Otitis Media Disappeared during COVID-19 Pandemic? A Fortuitus Effect of Domestic Confinement |
title_sort | has otitis media disappeared during covid-19 pandemic? a fortuitus effect of domestic confinement |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8267642/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34199138 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132851 |
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