Journal article

Assessment of Pediatric Outpatient Visits for Notifiable Infectious Diseases in a University Hospital in Beijing During COVID-19

This ecological study compared the frequency of pediatric outpatient visits at Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital for infectious diseases acquired through droplet transmission, contact transmission, or both between January 19 and April 15, 2020 to the same period in 2019. The authors report an 83% decrease in pediatric outpatient visits from 14 557 visits in 2019 to 2420 visits in 2020. 34 patients with notifiable infectious diseases were reported during the COVID-19 outbreak (average=0.4/day) compared with 383 (4.3/day) in 2019 (91% decrease). The proportion of children with influenza was lower during the outbreak than in 2019.

Main limitations: The study was based on electronic medical records. Therefore, selection bias and misclassification bias cannot be ruled out.

(note no mention of measles, and table only has mumps/flu as VPDs)

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2020

Publisher

JAMA network open

Journal

JAMA network open

Volume

August 24, 2020

Type

Journal article

Categories

  • Data

Diseases

  • COVID-19

Countries

  • China

WHO Regions

  • Western Pacific Region

Topic references

IMPACT-COVID-VDP

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Assessment of Pediatric Outpatient Visits for Notifiable Infectious Diseases in a University Hospital in Beijing During COVID-19et al., Nan Li, Shunli Li, Zujin Luo2020Journal articleEnglish
Epidemiology of measles during the COVID-19 pandemic, a description of the surveillance data, 29 EU/EEA countries and the United Kingdom, January to May 2020 Grazina Mirinaviciute, Lucia Pastore Celentano, Nathalie Nicolay, Sabrina Bacci, Thomas Mollet2020Journal articleEnglish