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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Emergency Department of a tertiary children’s hospital

2021; BioMed Central; Volume: 47; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s13052-021-00976-y

1824-7288

Umberto Raucci, Anna Maria Musolino, Domenico Di Lallo, Simone Piga, María Antonietta Barbieri, Mara Pisani, Francesco Rossi, Antonino Reale, Marta Luisa Ciofi degli Atti, Alberto Villani, Massimiliano Raponi,

COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

Italy was the first country in Europe affected by COVID-19: the emergency started on February 20, 2020, culminating with national lockdown on March 11, which terminated on May 4, 2020. We describe how the pandemic affected Emergency Department (ED) accesses in a tertiary children's hospital, composed by two different pediatric centers, one located in Rome's city center and the second, Palidoro (regional COVID-19 center), in its surrounding metropolitan area, both in the Lazio region, analyzing the profile of admitted patients during the pandemic period in terms of their general characteristics (at presentation in the ED's) and urgent hospitalizations compared to prepandemic period.