Cambios comparativos en la asistencia de pacientes al servicio de emergencia durante la primera ola en el Hospital de Emergencias Pediátricas entre el 2019 y 2020

Angela Stramandinoli; Julio Alvarado-Zúñiga; Germán F. Alvarado; Gabriela Egúsquiza-Zuzunaga; Nilton Yhuri Carreazo

doi:10.17843/rpmesp.2022.393.11245

Authors

Angela Stramandinoli Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8927-3034
Julio Alvarado-Zúñiga Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3340-6248
Germán F. Alvarado Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-7717
Gabriela Egúsquiza-Zuzunaga Hospital de Emergencias Pediátricas, Lima, Perú.
Nilton Yhuri Carreazo Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú; Hospital de Emergencias Pediátricas, Lima, Perú https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5269-4855

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2022.393.11245

Keywords:

Pediatrics, Emergency care, Emergency Service, Hospital, Pandemics, Delivery of Health Care, Peru, COVID-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the pattern of patient attendance at healthcare facilities. We describe the comparative changes in the attendance of pediatric patients at the Emergency Department of the Pediatric Emergency Hospital of Lima, Peru, between epidemiological weeks 10 to 48 of 2019 and 2020. Sociodemographic data, patient condition, type of insurance and diagnosis grouped according to ICD-10 code were analyzed. We found a 48.2% reduction in the number of visits in 2020 when compared to 2019, and a five-fold increase in the number of visits from localities other than Metropolitan Lima. Likewise, the probability of diagnosis of “infectious and parasitic diseases” increased by 27% and the probability of diagnosis of “diseases of the respiratory system” decreased by 61%.

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