Children hospitalised with gastroenteritis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The COVID-19 pandemic altered the pattern of many paediatric infections. We aimed to assess the incidence and characteristics of children hospitalised with gastroenteritis during the early and the late pandemic, relative to previous years.

Methods

In a retrospective study, we collected data from patient files of children aged 1 month to 5 years, admitted with gastroenteritis to a paediatric department in Denmark during January-June, of 2017 to 2021, comparing incidence rates and clinical features in the early pandemic (March to June 2020), and late pandemic period (January to June 2021), to similar pre-pandemic months.

Results

In the early pandemic, admission rates per 1000 children/month declined to 0.5 (95% CI: 0.3-0.6) from pre-pandemic rates of 1.6 (95% CI: 1

SUBMITTER: Saidian H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11627442 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature