Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Headache Evaluations in the Pediatric Emergency Department
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 700
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- During the study period, 890 evaluations were registered: the number of partecipants was 689 over the prepandemic period and 201 over the pandemic period. Mean age at evaluation was 10 years (range: 1 to 17 years).
研究概览
简要总结
Background: To evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on evaluations in the pediatric emergency department (ED) because of headache as main symptom.
Methods: Number and clinical features of patients evaluated in the pediatric ED of a single site in Milan,Italy, were collected between January 2017 and January 2022. The impact of COVID-19 on evaluation rates was quantified by using the incidence rate ratio (IRR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) between the pandemic (March 2020 to January 2022) and the prepandemic period (January 2017 to February 2020).
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
- 2 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •range of age: 2 - 18 years
- •headache as main symptom
排除标准
- •headache in the context of head trauma, because of different diagnostic-care in Pediatric Emergency Department
结局指标
主要结局
During the study period, 890 evaluations were registered: the number of partecipants was 689 over the prepandemic period and 201 over the pandemic period. Mean age at evaluation was 10 years (range: 1 to 17 years).
时间窗: the pandemic (March 2020 to January 2022) and the prepandemic period (January 2017 to February 2020).
次要结局
- Evaluation rates per month were 18.1 during the prepandemic period and 8.7 during COVID-19 pandemic, with peaks in autumn and winter and drops in summer. The reduction in evaluation rate was higher for secondary headache when compared with primary one(the pandemic (March 2020 to January 2022) and the prepandemic period (January 2017 to February 2020).)
研究者
Alberto Cappellari
Principal investigator
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico