We aimed to describe the epidemiology of all pediatric emergency department visits (focusing on mental health-related visits versus total visits) at the University Children’s Hospital of Nice (France) from 1 January to 31 December 2020 (year of the COVID-19 pandemic) and to compare it with the earlier 3-year period. The increase in mental health-related visits (44.2%) that we observed, while total visits decreased (30.0%), suggests an impact of the pandemic on children’s and adolescents’ mental health.
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Fernandez, A., Gindt, M., Babe, P., & Askenazy, F. (2021). Mental health-related visits in a pediatric emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12245-021-00387-0
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