Rate of Pediatric Appendiceal Perforation at a Children's Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic Compared With the Previous Year

Rick Place; Jonathan Lee; John Howell

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27948

Rate of Pediatric Appendiceal Perforation at a Children's Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic Compared With the Previous Year

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Dec 1;3(12):e2027948. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27948.

Authors

Rick Place^{1

2}, Jonathan Lee², John Howell¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Falls Church.
² Department of Pediatrics, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Falls Church.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study assesses the rate of appendiceal perforations during the COVID-19 pandemic at a children’s hospital during10-week periods in 2020 vs 2019.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Appendectomy
Appendicitis / epidemiology*
Appendicitis / surgery
COVID-19*
Child
Female
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data*
Hospitals, Pediatric
Humans
Male
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Time-to-Treatment