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The first winter of social distancing improved most of the health indexes in a paediatric emergency department
AIM: We compared visits to a tertiary level paediatric emergency department (PED) in Italy, during winter 2020–2021, when COVID‐19 social distancing measures were in place, with winter 2019–2020. METHODS: This was a retrospective analysis of an electronic database. We obtained the number of visits a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9303403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35080037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apa.16271 |
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author | Cozzi, Giorgio Blasutig, Francesca De Nardi, Laura Giangreco, Manuela Barbi, Egidio Amaddeo, Alessandro |
author_facet | Cozzi, Giorgio Blasutig, Francesca De Nardi, Laura Giangreco, Manuela Barbi, Egidio Amaddeo, Alessandro |
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description | AIM: We compared visits to a tertiary level paediatric emergency department (PED) in Italy, during winter 2020–2021, when COVID‐19 social distancing measures were in place, with winter 2019–2020. METHODS: This was a retrospective analysis of an electronic database. We obtained the number of visits and the ages, main complaints, triage codes, discharge diagnoses and outcomes of patients who accessed the PED from the 1 October 2020 to 28 February 2021. These were compared to the same period in 2019–2021. RESULTS: Visits fell by 52%, from 10982 in 2019–2020 to 5317 in 2020–2021 (p < 0.0001). The reductions were 52% in neonates, 58% in infants, 53% in toddlers, 61% in preschool children, 48% in school children and 46% in adolescents. Non‐urgent and urgent triage codes declined. Respiratory and gastrointestinal infections fell by 72% and 71% respectively. Injuries declined by 42%, mainly among adolescents. Accidental intoxication, psychiatric symptoms and substance or alcohol abuse declined by 24%, 33% and 64%. Hospital admissions reduced by 8% and admissions to intensive care fell by 29%. CONCLUSION: During the first winter of pandemic social distancing visits to an Italian PED fell by 52%, with higher reductions in younger children and infants, and hospital admissions fell by 8%. |
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spelling | pubmed-93034032022-07-22 The first winter of social distancing improved most of the health indexes in a paediatric emergency department Cozzi, Giorgio Blasutig, Francesca De Nardi, Laura Giangreco, Manuela Barbi, Egidio Amaddeo, Alessandro Acta Paediatr Original Articles AIM: We compared visits to a tertiary level paediatric emergency department (PED) in Italy, during winter 2020–2021, when COVID‐19 social distancing measures were in place, with winter 2019–2020. METHODS: This was a retrospective analysis of an electronic database. We obtained the number of visits and the ages, main complaints, triage codes, discharge diagnoses and outcomes of patients who accessed the PED from the 1 October 2020 to 28 February 2021. These were compared to the same period in 2019–2021. RESULTS: Visits fell by 52%, from 10982 in 2019–2020 to 5317 in 2020–2021 (p < 0.0001). The reductions were 52% in neonates, 58% in infants, 53% in toddlers, 61% in preschool children, 48% in school children and 46% in adolescents. Non‐urgent and urgent triage codes declined. Respiratory and gastrointestinal infections fell by 72% and 71% respectively. Injuries declined by 42%, mainly among adolescents. Accidental intoxication, psychiatric symptoms and substance or alcohol abuse declined by 24%, 33% and 64%. Hospital admissions reduced by 8% and admissions to intensive care fell by 29%. CONCLUSION: During the first winter of pandemic social distancing visits to an Italian PED fell by 52%, with higher reductions in younger children and infants, and hospital admissions fell by 8%. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-02-04 2022-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9303403/ /pubmed/35080037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apa.16271 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Acta Paediatrica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation Acta Paediatrica https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Cozzi, Giorgio Blasutig, Francesca De Nardi, Laura Giangreco, Manuela Barbi, Egidio Amaddeo, Alessandro The first winter of social distancing improved most of the health indexes in a paediatric emergency department |
title | The first winter of social distancing improved most of the health indexes in a paediatric emergency department |
title_full | The first winter of social distancing improved most of the health indexes in a paediatric emergency department |
title_fullStr | The first winter of social distancing improved most of the health indexes in a paediatric emergency department |
title_full_unstemmed | The first winter of social distancing improved most of the health indexes in a paediatric emergency department |
title_short | The first winter of social distancing improved most of the health indexes in a paediatric emergency department |
title_sort | first winter of social distancing improved most of the health indexes in a paediatric emergency department |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9303403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35080037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apa.16271 |
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