COVID-19 impact on the emergency and hospitalization of a tertiary hospital. Management lessons learned()

INTRODUCTION: The objective is to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pediatric emergencies and hospital admissions. METHODS: Retrospective cohort study of patients treated in a tertiary hospital, from March 14 to April 26, 2020, compared to the same period of the previous 3 years. RE...

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Autores principales: Martínez-Navarro, Gorka, Lozano-Zafra, Cristina, Caballero-Chabrera, Francesc, Modesto-Alapont, Vicente, Oltra-Benavent, Manuel
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Publicado: Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9170570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35729049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eimce.2022.06.001
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author Martínez-Navarro, Gorka
Lozano-Zafra, Cristina
Caballero-Chabrera, Francesc
Modesto-Alapont, Vicente
Oltra-Benavent, Manuel
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description INTRODUCTION: The objective is to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pediatric emergencies and hospital admissions. METHODS: Retrospective cohort study of patients treated in a tertiary hospital, from March 14 to April 26, 2020, compared to the same period of the previous 3 years. RESULTS: A notable overall reduction in emergency room visits and admissions is observed in all pediatric areas, maintaining care in neonatology and scheduled admissions in oncology. DISCUSSION: The reduction in global activity in pediatric emergencies is not only explained by the decrease in contagious diseases. The decrease in inadequate demand and inappropriate income may have contributed. The availability of pediatric beds would make the reduction of programmed surgical activity unnecessary and would allow the redistribution of resources to areas with greater healthcare pressure.
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spelling pubmed-91705702022-06-07 COVID-19 impact on the emergency and hospitalization of a tertiary hospital. Management lessons learned() Martínez-Navarro, Gorka Lozano-Zafra, Cristina Caballero-Chabrera, Francesc Modesto-Alapont, Vicente Oltra-Benavent, Manuel Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin (Engl Ed) Original Article INTRODUCTION: The objective is to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pediatric emergencies and hospital admissions. METHODS: Retrospective cohort study of patients treated in a tertiary hospital, from March 14 to April 26, 2020, compared to the same period of the previous 3 years. RESULTS: A notable overall reduction in emergency room visits and admissions is observed in all pediatric areas, maintaining care in neonatology and scheduled admissions in oncology. DISCUSSION: The reduction in global activity in pediatric emergencies is not only explained by the decrease in contagious diseases. The decrease in inadequate demand and inappropriate income may have contributed. The availability of pediatric beds would make the reduction of programmed surgical activity unnecessary and would allow the redistribution of resources to areas with greater healthcare pressure. Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022-11 2022-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9170570/ /pubmed/35729049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eimce.2022.06.001 Text en © 2021 Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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