The Unintended Impact of COVID-19 Associated Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on Paediatric Hospital Admissions: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

COVID-19 related non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) disrupted global healthcare utilisation, with notable declines in infection related paediatric hospitalisations. We aimed to identify non-infectious paediatric conditions for which the incidence of hospital admissions increased during the introduction and alleviation of NPIs in 2020.

Methods

We examined anonymous hospitalisation data from Perth's sole tertiary paediatric hospital (Jan 2015-Dec 2020), according to pre-defined age groups (0-4 years, 5-9 years, 10-16 years and 0-16). We identified the most frequent non-infectious diagnoses in these age groups over five different NPI periods. We quantified the impact of NPIs on admissions for the most frequent diagnosis groups (perinatal disorders, mental disorders) us

SUBMITTER: Pratt MTG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12455533 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature