COVID-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic: Substantial Decline of the Demand for Pediatric Healthcare Services

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11130%2F21%3A10417578" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11130/21:10417578 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00064203:_____/21:10417578

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=NEGvif1lPx" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=NEGvif1lPx</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1268-9211" target="_blank" >10.1055/a-1268-9211</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

COVID-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic: Substantial Decline of the Demand for Pediatric Healthcare Services

Original language description

Since December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a beta coronavirus which can cause the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading around the world. SARS-CoV-2 is highly infectious, thereby the entire population is generally susceptible. This virus spread throughout almost the entire world quite rapidly. At the time of writing this article, COVID-19 has been confirmed in most countries including the Czech Republic (CZ). The main routes of transmission are respiratory droplets and patient-to-patient contact. In CZ, on the 1st of March, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed. During the 75 days that followed, a total of 356,515 individuals were tested, 8,480 had positive COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction tests (Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic 2020). In the pediatric population (&lt;=15 years), 512 (6.2%) patients were detected, fortunately, no deaths were reported (Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic 2020). A lot of government restrictions were performed, e. g. school closures (from the 11th of March, 2020), limited possibilities of travelling due to border closures (from the 16th of March, 2020), and the mandatory wearing of face masks or covering of the nose and mouth in the general population (from the 18th of March, 2020). During this time, we observed a lower number of pediatric patients and a different distribution of diagnoses than per usual. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the number of inpatients/outpatients and spectrum of inpatients before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30209 - Paediatrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Klinische Pädiatrie

ISSN

0300-8630

e-ISSN

1439-3824

Volume of the periodical

233

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

40-42

UT code for WoS article

000583626400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85096788150