Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department visits and infant health: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The novel SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has provided a set of unique challenges for paediatric patients requiring emergency care across the globe. Reduction in paediatric emergency department (ED) usage during the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely reported, but no studies to date have consolidated and described what ramifications these reductions may have on neonatal and infant health. This scoping review aims to characterise the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on infant ED visits and neonatal and infant health.

Methods and analysis

A comprehensive literature search will be conducted from March 2020 to July 2022 using the following databases: Embase (Ovid), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Medline (Ovid) and CINAHL (EBSCOhost). This scoping review will use a five-ste

SUBMITTER: Osborne B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9344596 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature