Resilience Against COVID-19: How Italy Faced the Pandemic in Pediatric Orthopedics and Traumatology.

ABSTRACT: We aimed to investigate the variation of medical and surgical activities in pediatric orthopedics in Italy, during the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in comparison with data from the previous two years. The differences among the first wave, phase 2 and second wave were also analyzed. We conducted a retrospective multicenter study regarding the clinical and surgical activities in pediatric orthopedics during the pandemic and pre-pandemic period. The hospital databases of seven tertiary referral centers for pediatric orthopedics and traumatology were queried for events regarding pediatric orthopedic patients from 1 March 2018 to 28 February 2021. Surgical procedures were classified according to the "SITOP Priority Panel". An additional classification in "high-priority" and "low-priority" sur

SUBMITTER: Trisolino G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8305147 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature