Where have all the children gone? Decreases in paediatric emergency department attendances at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020
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- DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319385
Where have all the children gone? Decreases in paediatric emergency department attendances at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020
Keywords: accident & emergency; epidemiology.
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the paediatric emergency department attendances in Argentina.Arch Dis Child. 2021 Feb;106(2):e5. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319833. Epub 2020 Jun 18. Arch Dis Child. 2021. PMID: 32554509 No abstract available.
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