The ongoing indirect effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on a pediatric emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic may cause significant morbidity and mortality in adults, yet severe cases are rare among children. The indirect impact of the pandemic on health care delivery in general and pediatric emergency department (PED) visits in particular has been widely reported.

Aims

To assess the impact of the pandemic and the social restrictions imposed in its wake on PED visits and hospitalization rates in our Israeli medical center. We also sought to track these data in relation to the variation in pandemic severity and social restrictions over time. A comparison of this data with that of the adult emergency department was also performed.

Methods

Data for this study were drawn from the Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC), Jerusalem, Israe

SUBMITTER: Erlichman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8117792 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature