Admission Pattern Among Children With Gastro-intestinal Infections Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 600
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- incidence of admission with gastroeneteritis in children
研究概览
简要总结
During the Covid-19 pandemic, admission patterns for infections other than Covid-19 have changed dramatically among children worldwide.
Particularly admissions due to respiratory infections and later invasive streptococcal infections have been well documented.
However, few studies have compared rates af gastro-intestinal infections during the pandemic with the previous years.
This study aims to compare the number and characteristics of children hospitalized with gastrointestinal infections before the COVID-19 pandemic, to the first strict lockdown in 2020 and to the second, less strict lockdown in 2021.
A retrospective review of medical records will be performed, of patients aged 1 month to 5 years admitted with gastroenteritis at the pediatric department at Slagelse Hospital in Denmark over a period from 2017 to 2021.
详细描述
Admission patterns among children with non-Covid gastro-intestinal infections before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Purpose To compare incidence of and clinical characteristics of children admitted with gastro-intestinal infections during the Covid-19 pandemic relative to prepandemic seasons.
This will improve understanding of the indirect effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
HYPOTESES
- During the winter-spring months after the lock-down in 2020 fewer children were admitted with gastro-intestinal infections, relative to the winter-spring months of the pre-pandemic years, while more children were admitted during the winter-spring season of 2021 relative to pre-pandemic years.
- Children admitted during the winter-spring season of 2021 were more severely ill, and older than children admitted during the prepandemic seasons.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 1 Month 至 59 Months（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Children admitted to Slagelse hospital
- •aged >1 month and <5 years
- •symptoms of gastrointestinal infection
- •admitted during the months of january-june of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2020
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
incidence of admission with gastroeneteritis in children
时间窗: five years (2017 to 2021)
number of children admitted/1000 children per month
次要结局
- age of children admitted(five years (2017 to 2021))
- severity of illness(five years (2017 to 2021))
研究者
Maren Rytter
Consultant, PhD, clinical associate professor
Region Zealand