Toxic Exposures Among Young Children One Year into the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Review of Three San Francisco Bay Area Emergency Departments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Daycare and school closures prompted by shelter-in-place orders may have increased opportunities for unintentional ingestions among young children.

Objectives

We examined emergency department (ED) presentations for toxic exposures among young children during the COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area, which had some of the strictest and most prolonged shelter-in-place policies in the United States.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study of children 0 to 5 years of age who presented with an ED International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision diagnosis code of toxic exposure within a tertiary care hospital system between March 16, 2016 and March 15, 2021. We considered the period aft

SUBMITTER: Devlin G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482847 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature