Trends in US Pediatric Hospital Admissions in 2020 Compared With the Decade Before the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In early 2020, the United States declared a public health emergency in response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and implemented a variety of social distancing measures. The association between the COVID-19 pandemic and the number of pediatric admissions is unclear.

Objective

To determine the changes in patterns of pediatric admissions in 2020 compared with the prior decade.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study included 49 US hospitals contributing to the Pediatric Health Information Systems database. Inpatient admissions were transformed into time-series data, and ensemble forecasting models were generated to analyze admissions across a range of diagnoses in 2020 compared with previous years. The setting was inpatient admissio

SUBMITTER: Pelletier JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7881361 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature