Open AccessInpatient and Outpatient Differences in Pediatric Patients with Laboratory-confirmed COVID-19
Author(s) -
Alicen B Spaulding,
David A. Watson,
Laura E. Norton
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0000000000003359
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , inpatient care , outpatient visits , health care , family medicine , pediatrics , emergency medicine , demography , virology , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , economic growth , sociology
Among 30,286 pediatric inpatient and outpatient encounters with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 seen at one of 40 US healthcare organizations, 1586 (5.2%) were inpatient. Encounter types varied by age and sex; the proportion of Black/African American inpatients was significantly higher than outpatients, and Hispanic/Latinx children made up nearly one-fourth of patients.