661 Identifying children ‘missing’ during UK COVID-19 lockdown: A retrospective cohort study (2015–2020) of Oxfordshire ED attendances and inpatient diagnoses

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Background

On 23rd March 2020, the UK ‘stay at home’ order heralded the first national lockdown, lasting 7-weeks. Dramatic reductions of paediatric attendances/admissions were noted nationally and internationally, with concerns surrounding diagnosis which may be missing from secondary care. We conducted a systematic review on 9^th January 2021, searching PubMed for ‘COVID’, AND ‘lockdown’, AND ‘paediatric’ OR ‘children’, AND ‘attendance’ OR ‘admission’, in all languages usi... Expand abstract

Authors: Charlesworth, JE; Bold, R; Pal, R

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Journal: Archives of Disease in Childhood
• Volume: 106
• Issue: Suppl 1
• Pages: A74.1-A74
• Publication date: 2021-09-30
• DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-rcpch.127
• EISSN: 1468-2044
• ISSN: 0003-9888
• Language: English
• Keywords: Environmental health; Medical diagnosis; Pediatrics; Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Health care; Emergency medicine; Internal medicine; Population; Medicine; Specialty; Diagnosis code; Attendance; Retrospective cohort study; Family medicine; Cohort; Disease