Reasons for Admissions to US Children's Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peter J Gill; Sanjay Mahant; Matt Hall; Jay G Berry

doi:10.1001/jama.2021.4382

Reasons for Admissions to US Children's Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA. 2021 Apr 27;325(16):1676-1679. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.4382.

Authors

Peter J Gill¹, Sanjay Mahant¹, Matt Hall², Jay G Berry³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Children's Hospital Association, Lenexa, Kansas.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study uses Pediatric Health Information System database data to compare hospitalizations in US children’s hospitals early in the COVID-19 pandemic (March-August 2020) vs the same period in 2017-2019, overall and for respiratory, chronic, nonrespiratory, and other conditions.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Age Distribution
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data*
Hospitals, Pediatric / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Pandemics*
Seasons
Sex Distribution