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Where have the children with epilepsy gone? An observational study of seizure-related accesses to emergency department at the time of COVID-19
- Source :
- Seizure
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdown measures drastically changed health care and emergency services utilization. This study evaluated trends in emergency department (ED) access for seizure-related reasons in the first 8 weeks of lockdown in Italy. Methods All ED accesses of children (
- Subjects :
- Emergency Medical Services
Reduced risk
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Short Communication
Clinical Neurology
Hospitalization rate
Parental supervision
03 medical and health sciences
Epilepsy
0302 clinical medicine
Civd-19
Emergency
Seizures
Health care
medicine
Humans
Child
Children
Child neurology
Covid-19
Seizure
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
General Medicine
Emergency department
medicine.disease
Hospitalization
Italy
Neurology
Emergency medicine
Observational study
Neurology (clinical)
Emergency Service, Hospital
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10591311
- Volume :
- 83
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Seizure
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....35140d55e3458eb685463eeaacc3e372
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2020.09.025