Open AccessEpidemiologic Changes in Pediatric Fractures Presenting to Emergency Departments During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Nathan Markiewitz,
John Garcia-Munoz,
Brendan M. Lilley,
Samuel Oduwole,
Apurva S. Shah,
Brendan A. Williams
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of pediatric orthopaedics/journal of pediatric orthopedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.318
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1539-2570
pISSN - 0271-6798
DOI - 10.1097/bpo.0000000000002194
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , poisson regression , confidence interval , epidemiology , pediatrics , poison control , injury prevention , pandemic , rate ratio , hip fracture , emergency department , population , covid-19 , emergency medicine , osteoporosis , disease , environmental health , physics , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , optics
Fractures are a common pediatric injury. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in significant changes in daily life that could impact the incidence of pediatric fractures. The purpose of this study was to compare the incidence of pediatric fractures in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic to previous seasonally adjusted fracture incidence rates using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) database and the American Community Survey (ACS).