Point of view of the Italians pediatric scientific societies about the pediatric care during the COVID-19 lockdown: what
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(2020) 46:142
RESEARCH
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Point of view of the Italians pediatric scientific societies about the pediatric care during the COVID-19 lockdown: what has changed and future prospects for restarting Riccardo Lubrano1,2*, Alberto Villani3, Stefano Berrettini4, Paolo Caione5, Alberto Chiara6, Antonella Costantino7, Roberto Formigari8, Emilio Franzoni9, Guido Castelli Gattinara10, Arturo Giustardi11, Giancarlo La Marca12, Paolo Lionetti13, Mario Lima14, Claudio Maffei15, Monica Malamisura16, Giantonio Manzoni17, Gian Luigi Marseglia18, Antonio Memeo19, Fabio Mosca20, Giovanna Perricone21, Licia Peruzzi22, Giorgio Piacentini23, Gabriella Pozzobon24, Enrica Riva25, Simonetta Tesoro26, Giuseppe Zampino27, Federica Zanetto28, Marco Zecca29 and Silvia Bloise1,2
Abstract Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently rare in children and they seem to have a milder disease course and better prognosis than adults. However, SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has indirectly caused problems in pediatric medical assistance. In view of this we wanted to draw a picture of what happened during health emergency and analyze future prospects for restarting. Methods: We involved the Italian pediatric scientific societies institutionally collected in the Italian Federation of Associations and Scientific Societies of the Pediatric Area (FIARPED); We sent a questionnaire to all scientific societies about the pediatric care activity during the COVID-19 emergency and future perspectives for the phase of post-containment. Results: The analysis of the questionnaires showed significant decrease of:admission, outpatient visits and specialist consultancy activities during the COVID-19 emergency, primarily linked to the fear of infection. Instead it was increased the serious degree of diseases admitted. Most of scientific societies maintained the relationship with chronic patients through some form of telemedicine, reporting a strong positive opinion about this modality. Finally showed the need to give life a new approach for hospitalizations and outpatient visits through a greater use of telemedicine, educational programs on families and a more decisive role of family pediatricians. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Federazione Italiana delle Associazioni e Società Scientifiche dell’Area Pediatrica e Società Italiana di Emergenza Urgenza Pediatrica, Rome, Italy 2 Dipartimento Materno Infantile e di Scienze Urologiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, UOC di Pediatria e Neonatologia, Ospedale Santa Maria Goretti, Polo di Latina, Latina, Italy Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images o
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