Impact of Covid-19 on the Visit of Pediatric Patients with Injuries to the Emergency Department in Korea

Choi, Arum; Bae, Woori; Kim, Kyunghoon; Kim, Sukil

doi:10.3390/children8070568

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“…1 : General health services include different levels of care or type of service; 2 : aggregated data and/or no specification of the different periods of analysis; 3 : studies that did not analyze whether the changes were statistically significant (the rest of articles presented results statistically significant); AF: associated factors; ED: emergency department; ICU: intensive care unit; IRR: incidence rate ratio; OB-GYN: obstetrics-gynecology; OR: odds ratio; PC: primary care; RR: relative risk; SC: secondary care; SRH: sexual and reproductive health. With regard to the type of service, of the studies on realized access, 5 focused on health services in general [46][47][48][49][50]; 12 on emergencies [51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62] (of which 5 were related to pediatric emergencies [56][57][58]60,61]); 15 on secondary care (SC) (outpatient visits, hospital admissions, etc., for nephrology [63], oncology [64,65], pediatrics [66], psychiatry [67,68], rehabilitation [69], respiratory diseases [70], sexual and reproductive health (SRH) [71,[73][74][75], and traumatology [78,79]); two on primary care (PC) [80,81]; one on preventive services…”

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“…In terms of geographical area, 19 studies were conducted in European countries [47,51,53,55,57,62,64,[67][68][69][70]75,79,83,84,88,90,92,95], 9 in North American countries [49,58,59,77,78,80,82,85,86], 9 in Sub-Saharan Africa [46,48,71,72,76,87,93,94,98], 3 in Latin America [60,91,96], 5 in the East Asia-Pacific region [50,56,61,66,81], 3 in South Asia [63,65,74], 2 in the North Africa-Middle East region [52], and, lastly, 3 studies covered various regions…”

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“…With regard to the period of analysis, 38 of the selected studies were conducted over the first months of the pandemic (February to June 2020) [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][57][58][59][60]62,[65][66][67][68][69][70][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80]82,84,86,88,90,92,93,98]; 4 during the second stage of the pandemic (June to September 2020) [85,89,91,96]; 1 at a later stage (September to November 2020) [94]; finally, 8 analyzed the whole period (February to December 2020) [56,61,63,64,71,…”

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“…No studies were found that analyzed periods after December 2020. All studies that analyzed realized access presented their results in comparison with a previous period: 32 of the first-stage studies compared the changes to pre-pandemic periods of reference [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][57][58][59][60]62,[65][66][67][68][69][70][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80]82,98], as did 6 of those that analyzed the whole period [56,61,63,64,71,83]. One study did not specify the exact period of 2020 analyzed [95].…”

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Changes in Access to Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

Pujolar-Díaz

Oliver-Anglès

Vargas

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures adopted are having a profound impact on a major goal of public healthcare systems: universal access to health services. The objective is to synthesize the available knowledge on access to health care for non-COVID-19 conditions and to identify knowledge gaps. A scoping review was conducted searching different databases (Medline, Google Scholar, etc.) for original articles published between December 2019 and September 2021. A total of 53 articles were selected and analyzed using the Aday and Andersen framework as a guide. Of these, 37 analyzed changes in levels of use of health services, 15 focused on the influencing factors and barriers to access, and 1 studied both aspects. Most focused on specific diseases and the early stages of the pandemic, based on a review of records. Analyses of the impact on primary care services’ use, unmet needs or inequalities in access were scarce. A generalized reduction in the use of health services was described. The most frequent access barrier described for non-COVID-19 conditions related to the services was a lack of resources, while barriers related to the population were predisposing (fear of contagion, stigma, or anticipating barriers) and enabling characteristics (worse socioeconomic status and an increase in technological barriers). In conclusion, our results show a general reduction in services’ use in the early stages of the pandemic, as well as new barriers to access and the exacerbation of existing ones. In view of these results, more studies are required on the subsequent stages of the pandemic, to shed more light on the factors that have influenced access and the pandemic’s impact on equity of access.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Changes in Access to Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

Pujolar-Díaz

Oliver-Anglès

Vargas

et al. 2022

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159

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“…There have been several reports of a decrease in the number of pediatric patients visiting emergency departments (EDs) during the COVID-19 pandemic [ 2 , 3 ]. In Korea, for instance, the number of pediatric patients visiting EDs for both trauma and medical diseases has decreased [ 4 , 5 ]. There may be several reasons for the decrease in ED visits for pediatric patients, such as fear of exposure and risk of infection, a decrease in the prevalence of infectious disease itself due to infection prevention behavior, and a decrease in access to EDs due to each hospital’s infectious disease strategy.…”

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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Care Utilization and Outcomes in Pediatric Patients with Intussusception

Lee

Kwon

et al. 2022

Children

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Background: We determined whether a decrease in healthcare utilization patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic affected the treatment process of pediatric patients with intussusception. Methods: Patients with suspected intussusception who had ICD-10 code K561 as their discharge diagnosis from the national database were selected, and those who underwent either radiologic and/or surgical reduction were defined as true intussusception patients. We compared the time periods from patients visiting the ED to ultrasound, radiologic reduction and/or surgical reduction between the study group (first half of 2020, COVID-19 period) and the control groups (control group 1: first half of 2019, control group 2: second half of 2019). Results: The number of suspected intussusception patients in each group was 1223, 1576, and 624, and the incidence rates were 7.85, 11.30, and 4.19 per 100,000 person-half-years (control group 1, control group 2, study group, respectively, p < 0.05). No differences in terms of the time from the ED visit to ultrasound, radiological reduction and/or surgical reduction were noted between the study group and the control groups. Conclusions: In Korea, the COVID-19 pandemic did not significantly affect the ED treatment process or the results of patients with intussusception.

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Influence of COVID-19 pandemic on hospitalisations at a paediatric traumatology department during 2020: a single-centre observational study and comprehensive literature review

Delbrück,

Lambertz,

Migliorini

et al. 2024

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg

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Purpose The study investigates changes in the injury characteristics of hospitalised children in a paediatric trauma centre during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods Data from injured children from the pre-pandemic year 2019 were compared to the pandemic year 2020 using Pearson’s chi-squared test and the Mann–Whitney U test. The period of highly restrictive regulations (HRP) was evaluated separately. A comprehensive literature review with defined search terms resulted in a descriptive data synthesis. Results Data from 865 patients indicated reductions in admissions of 5.6% and 54.4% during the HRP. In 2020, the hospitalisation time was longer (2.2 ± 2.7 days in 2019 vs. 2.4 ± 2.6 in 2020, p = 0.045); the proportions of wounds requiring surgical therapy (p = 0.008) and of observational treatments, primarily for mild brain injuries (p = 0.046), were higher; and conservative treatments, primarily for contusions, were lower (p = 0.005). There were no significant changes in age, location of lesions, or frequency of surgical therapy; nor were there differences in the HRP, except for fewer injuries in school and kindergarten (p < 0.001). The literature review summarises the main results of 79 studies. Conclusion Limited resources did not alter the indications for surgical therapy. Further studies should examine whether the more common injuries sustained at home were caused by excessive work/childcare demands on parents. Reduced inpatient conservative treatment implies that hospital resources possibly were overused previously. The literature offers answers to many detailed questions regarding childhood injuries during a pandemic and more efficient safe treatment. Registration Ethical committee of RWTH Aachen University EK 22-320; Center for Translational & Clinical Research RWTH Aachen University (CTC-A) 21-430.

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Impact of Covid-19 on the Visit of Pediatric Patients with Injuries to the Emergency Department in Korea

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Changes in Access to Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

Changes in Access to Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Care Utilization and Outcomes in Pediatric Patients with Intussusception

Influence of COVID-19 pandemic on hospitalisations at a paediatric traumatology department during 2020: a single-centre observational study and comprehensive literature review

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