Impact of the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19 on patient attendance to the emergency department of the Pediatric Emergency Hospital
Objective: To analyze the variation in attendance and diagnoses after the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in the pediatric emergency department. The study: Analytical retrospective cross-sectional study. Pediatric emergency department visits were compared between epidemiological weeks...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Perú |
| Institución: | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas |
| Repositorio: | UPC-Institucional |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/673159 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.35434/rcmhnaaa.2023.163.1938 http://hdl.handle.net/10757/673159 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | COVID-19 Emergency Care Pediatrics vaccination https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.00.00 |
| Sumario: | Objective: To analyze the variation in attendance and diagnoses after the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in the pediatric emergency department. The study: Analytical retrospective cross-sectional study. Pediatric emergency department visits were compared between epidemiological weeks 1 and 52 of the years 2020 and 2021, analyzing sociodemographic characteristics, condition and diagnosis. Chi-square was used for bivariate analysis. Findings: A 77.8% increase was found in the number of attentions during the year 2021 compared to 2020. There was a 4% increase in infectious diseases and a 9.2% increase in respiratory diseases. In addition, a decrease of 8.7% was observed in gastrointestinal diseases. Conclusion: The results indicate that after the start of the national vaccination campaign, there was a significant increase in the number of patients compared to 2020, mainly for respiratory and infectious or parasitic diseases. |
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