Preparedness and Response to Pediatric COVID-19 in European Emergency Departments: A Survey of the REPEM and PERUKI Networks
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Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics: This survey accessed clinicians via a research collaborative to assess their departmental practice and therefore did not require formal ethics review, as per consultation with the ethics committee of the University Hospital of Padova, Italy. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Survey responses were collected in REDCap, a validated online data collection system. REDCapsuggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)Data were analysed using Stata (version 13, StataCorp, College Station, Texas, USA). StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.04.28.20075481: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
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Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics: This survey accessed clinicians via a research collaborative to assess their departmental practice and therefore did not require formal ethics review, as per consultation with the ethics committee of the University Hospital of Padova, Italy. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Survey responses were collected in REDCap, a validated online data collection system. REDCapsuggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)Data were analysed using Stata (version 13, StataCorp, College Station, Texas, USA). StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:This is in contrast to barriers related to structural limitations and constraints affecting the organization of ED patient flow and isolation capacity, which may be difficult to overcome in a short time frame. Infection control measures were more consistently reported in the survey, including re-arrangement of ED patient flow, changing of staff work shift to optimize resource utilization, reduction in the number of care givers allowed with the child and home quarantine for confirmed COVID-19 pediatric cases fit for discharge. Another interesting finding from our survey is the substantial reduction in pediatric ED presentations during the pandemic, which greatly helped centers with more limited isolation capacity better manage suspected COVID-19 cases. Centers from countries with a longer time since first case experienced higher reductions in the number of ED presentations. Parents’ fear of contagion in a healthcare environment, improved hygiene measures, reduced community transmission of communicable diseases, reduced opportunities to sustain injuries owing to the strict containment measures enforced by governments, and reduction in stress-related functional diseases may be the reasons underlying this phenomenon. Reports from previous epidemics also showed an overall decrease in PED attendances.27,28 The MERS outbreak had resulted in a significantly higher proportion of high acuity ED pediatric presentations and an increase in delayed presentations.9,29 High levels of care fo...
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