Using ICD-10 diagnostic codes to identify 'missing' paediatric patients during nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in Oxfordshire, UK.

ABSTRACT: The study aims to identify 'missing' diagnoses amongst paediatric admissions during the UK's first national lockdown, compared with the previous 5 years. A retrospective observational cohort study of all children (0-15 years) attending for urgent care across Oxfordshire, during the first UK lockdown in 2020, compared to matched dates in 2015-2019, across two paediatric hospitals providing secondary care, including one with tertiary services. Our outcome measures were changes in numbers of patients attending and inpatient diagnoses (using ICD-10 classification) during the first 2020 lockdown, compared with the previous 5 years, were used. We found that total Emergency Department (ED) attendances (n = 4030) and hospital admissions (n = 1416) during the first UK lockdown were reduced by 56.8%

SUBMITTER: Charlesworth JEG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8150620 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature