Interrupted time-series analysis showed unintended consequences of non-pharmaceutical interventions on pediatric hospital admissions

Autor: David Foley, Ariel Mace, Christopher C Blyth, Andrew D. Martin, Daniel Yeoh, Huong Le, Hannah C. Moore
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
ISSN: 1878-5921
2015-2019
Popis: OBJECTIVE: COVID-19-associated non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) have disrupted respiratory viral transmission. We quantified the changes in paediatric hospital admissions in 2020 from five different NPI phases in Western Australia for acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in children in the context of all-cause admissions. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We assessed anonymised hospitalisation data from Perth Children's Hospital (Jan 2015-Dec 2020) for all-cause admissions, ALRI, febrile illnesses and trauma (negative control) in those
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