Children's emergency presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic Group, Children's Emergency Department, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK. Electronic address: dr98@le.ac.uk.
² Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK; Division of Child Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
³ Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
⁴ Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.

Multicenter Study

Damian Roland et al. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;4(8):e32-e33.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30206-6. Epub 2020 Jun 27.

¹ Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic Group, Children's Emergency Department, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK. Electronic address: dr98@le.ac.uk.
² Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK; Division of Child Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
³ Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
⁴ Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.

No abstract available

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