The Unintended Impact of COVID-19 Associated Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on Paediatric Hospital Admissions: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis

Citation:
Pratt MTG, Le H, Lin A, Mace A, Blyth CC, Moore HC. The Unintended Impact of COVID-19 Associated Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on Paediatric Hospital Admissions: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. J Paediatr Child Health. 2025.

Keywords:
COVID‐19; child; feeding and eating disorders; hospitalisation; infant; interrupted times series analysis; newborn; non‐pharmaceutical intervention; pandemics; perinatal

Abstract:
COVID-19 related non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) disrupted global healthcare utilisation, with notable declines in infection related paediatric hospitalisations. We aimed to identify non-infectious paediatric conditions for which the incidence of hospital admissions increased during the introduction and alleviation of NPIs in 2020.