Impact of "Stay-at-Home" orders on non-accidental trauma: A multi-institutional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is unclear how Stay-at-Home Orders (SHO) of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the welfare of children and rates of non-accidental trauma (NAT). We hypothesized that NAT would initially decrease during the SHO as children did not have access to mandatory reporters, and then increase as physicians' offices and schools reopened.

Methods

A multicenter study evaluating patients <18 years with ICD-10 Diagnosis and/or External Cause of Injury codes meeting criteria for NAT. "Historical" controls from an averaged period of March-September 2016-2019 were compared to patients injured March-September 2020, after the implementation of SHO ("COVID" cohort). An interrupted time series analysis was utilized to evaluate the effects of SHO implementation.

Results

Nine Level

SUBMITTER: Collings AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8842346 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature