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What Has Changed in Injury-Related Presentations During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Single-Center Experience from a Pediatric Emergency Department

OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic affected the healthcare systems worldwide. In this study, we aimed to examine the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on injury-related visits. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 7648 injury-related pediatric e...

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Autores principales: Aydın, Orkun, Hanalıoğlu, Damla, Ünal, Bahri, Güngör, Emre, Kaynak, Mustafa Oğuz, Yiğit, Hande, Mercan, Umut Berk, Kuzu, Aslı, Teksam, Özlem
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Turkish Pediatrics Association 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35822479
http://dx.doi.org/10.5152/TurkArchPediatr.2022.22032
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author Aydın, Orkun
Hanalıoğlu, Damla
Ünal, Bahri
Güngör, Emre
Kaynak, Mustafa Oğuz
Yiğit, Hande
Mercan, Umut Berk
Kuzu, Aslı
Teksam, Özlem
author_facet Aydın, Orkun
Hanalıoğlu, Damla
Ünal, Bahri
Güngör, Emre
Kaynak, Mustafa Oğuz
Yiğit, Hande
Mercan, Umut Berk
Kuzu, Aslı
Teksam, Özlem
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description OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic affected the healthcare systems worldwide. In this study, we aimed to examine the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on injury-related visits. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 7648 injury-related pediatric emergency department visits between March 11 and June 30, 2018, 2019, and 2020, and compared the total number of visits, triage levels, distributions of injury mechanisms, and admission rates during the pandemic in 2020 to the same period in 2018 and 2019. RESULTS: In the first 4 months of the pandemic, there was a 69.5% drop in all pediatric emergency department visits compared to the previous 2 years. Despite this decrease, the proportion of injury-related pediatric emergency department visits increased from 14% to 20.9% in 2020 (P < .001). There was a 3.8% increase in the frequencies of patients with high triage acuity levels (T1, T2, and T3) and a 3.8% decrease in patients with low triage acuity levels (P < .001). The domestic injury rate increased from 40% to 60% during the pandemic period (P < .001). Hospitalization rates increased from 6% to 11.5% and admission to intensive care units increased from 0.9% to 3.3%. The differences were statistically significant (P < .001). Visits due to burn increased from 2.7% to 5.2% (P < .001), poisoning from 3.4% to 5.5% (P < .001), bicycle accidents from 3.3% to 6.8% (P < .001), while injuries due to motor vehicle accidents decreased from 2.6% to 1.3% (P = .004) and sports injuries decreased from 8% to 2.1% (P < .001). CONCLUSION: This study revealed that despite the significant decrease in total pediatric emergency department visits, percentages of injury-related visits increased during the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-93218382022-07-29 What Has Changed in Injury-Related Presentations During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Single-Center Experience from a Pediatric Emergency Department Aydın, Orkun Hanalıoğlu, Damla Ünal, Bahri Güngör, Emre Kaynak, Mustafa Oğuz Yiğit, Hande Mercan, Umut Berk Kuzu, Aslı Teksam, Özlem Turk Arch Pediatr Original Article OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic affected the healthcare systems worldwide. In this study, we aimed to examine the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on injury-related visits. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 7648 injury-related pediatric emergency department visits between March 11 and June 30, 2018, 2019, and 2020, and compared the total number of visits, triage levels, distributions of injury mechanisms, and admission rates during the pandemic in 2020 to the same period in 2018 and 2019. RESULTS: In the first 4 months of the pandemic, there was a 69.5% drop in all pediatric emergency department visits compared to the previous 2 years. Despite this decrease, the proportion of injury-related pediatric emergency department visits increased from 14% to 20.9% in 2020 (P < .001). There was a 3.8% increase in the frequencies of patients with high triage acuity levels (T1, T2, and T3) and a 3.8% decrease in patients with low triage acuity levels (P < .001). The domestic injury rate increased from 40% to 60% during the pandemic period (P < .001). Hospitalization rates increased from 6% to 11.5% and admission to intensive care units increased from 0.9% to 3.3%. The differences were statistically significant (P < .001). Visits due to burn increased from 2.7% to 5.2% (P < .001), poisoning from 3.4% to 5.5% (P < .001), bicycle accidents from 3.3% to 6.8% (P < .001), while injuries due to motor vehicle accidents decreased from 2.6% to 1.3% (P = .004) and sports injuries decreased from 8% to 2.1% (P < .001). CONCLUSION: This study revealed that despite the significant decrease in total pediatric emergency department visits, percentages of injury-related visits increased during the pandemic. Turkish Pediatrics Association 2022-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9321838/ /pubmed/35822479 http://dx.doi.org/10.5152/TurkArchPediatr.2022.22032 Text en © Copyright 2022 by The Turkish Archives of Pediatrics https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Content of this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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Aydın, Orkun
Hanalıoğlu, Damla
Ünal, Bahri
Güngör, Emre
Kaynak, Mustafa Oğuz
Yiğit, Hande
Mercan, Umut Berk
Kuzu, Aslı
Teksam, Özlem
What Has Changed in Injury-Related Presentations During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Single-Center Experience from a Pediatric Emergency Department
title What Has Changed in Injury-Related Presentations During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Single-Center Experience from a Pediatric Emergency Department
title_full What Has Changed in Injury-Related Presentations During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Single-Center Experience from a Pediatric Emergency Department
title_fullStr What Has Changed in Injury-Related Presentations During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Single-Center Experience from a Pediatric Emergency Department
title_full_unstemmed What Has Changed in Injury-Related Presentations During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Single-Center Experience from a Pediatric Emergency Department
title_short What Has Changed in Injury-Related Presentations During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Single-Center Experience from a Pediatric Emergency Department
title_sort what has changed in injury-related presentations during covid-19 pandemic? a single-center experience from a pediatric emergency department
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35822479
http://dx.doi.org/10.5152/TurkArchPediatr.2022.22032
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