NCT06295003

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Headache Evaluations in the Pediatric Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 700 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Background: To evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on evaluations in the pediatric emergency department (ED) because of headache as main symptom. Methods: Number and clinical features of patients evaluated in the pediatric ED of a single site in Milan,Italy, were collected between January 2017 and January 2022. The impact of COVID-19 on evaluation rates was quantified by using the incidence rate ratio (IRR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) between the pandemic (March 2020 to January 2022) and the prepandemic period (January 2017 to February 2020).

Conditions

• COVID-19
• Headache Disorders
• Emergency Service, Hospital

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-30
• Primary completion: 2022-05-30
• Completion: 2022-05-30
• First posted: 2024-03-06
• Last updated: 2024-03-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy