Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage?
ethics
health services research
mortality
Journal
BMJ paediatrics open
ISSN: 2399-9772
Titre abrégé: BMJ Paediatr Open
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101715309
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
11
06
2020
accepted:
30
07
2020
entrez:
30
6
2021
pubmed:
1
7
2021
medline:
1
7
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We aimed to investigate the out-of-hospital mortality, and the actual prevalence of COVID-19 in children requiring paediatric emergency department (ED) care for infectious symptoms. There were four emergency medical services (EMS) responses concerning children (age 0-15 years) leading to death on-scene in 2 months during the pandemic, and eight during the previous 12 months in the Helsinki University Hospital area, although the number of EMS missions decreased by 18%. The prevalence of COVID-19 in children contacting a paediatric ED for any infectious symptoms during the epidemic peak was only 2.7%.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34192172
doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000763
pii: bmjpo-2020-000763
pmc: PMC7430182
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e000763Informations de copyright
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None declared.
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