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cord-330320-27dj69i1	Valitutti, Francesco	Effect of Population Lockdown on Pediatric Emergency Room Demands in the Era of COVID-19	2020-09-18		.txt	text/plain	2655	136	48	Methods: A cross-sectional study on pediatric emergency department consultations before and during the current COVID-19 pandemic (March–May 2019 vs. Nevertheless, the current scenario highlighted the need for appropriate and timely clinical evaluations in the pediatric primary care to tackle late and more severe diagnoses in EDs. Emergency department (ED) patient flow includes roughly 20-25% of pediatric consultations in western countries each day (1) . The aim of our cross-sectional study was to highlight the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ED consultation appropriateness for children in two hospitals of Southern Italy, comparing retrospective data from the trimesters March-May 2019 and March-May 2020. Covid-19 nasal swabs were performed for 385 children; of those, six resulted positive and four of them were hospitalized elsewhere (Pediatric Regional Hub for Infectious Disease); two were quarantined in their house under special medical team follow-up. In this study, we aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and population lockdown on pediatric ED consultations and appropriateness analysis.	./cache/cord-330320-27dj69i1.txt	./txt/cord-330320-27dj69i1.txt