Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitalizations of children with neurologic impairment.
Joanna E ThomsonTroy RichardsonKatherine A AugerPatrick W BradyMatthew HallDavid HartleyAmanda C SchondelmeyerSamir S ShahPublished in: Journal of hospital medicine (2022)
For children with NI, there was a substantial and significant decrease in hospitalizations for infectious and noninfectious diagnoses but an increase in illness severity during the early-COVID era compared with the pre-COVID era. Our data suggest a need to reconsider current thresholds for hospitalization and identify opportunities to support and guide families through certain illnesses without hospitalization.