{"id":9373,"date":"2021-04-22T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9373"},"modified":"2021-04-23T15:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:47:01","slug":"hospital-admissions-for-abusive-head-trauma-at-childrens-hospitals-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/22\/hospital-admissions-for-abusive-head-trauma-at-childrens-hospitals-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Admissions for Abusive Head Trauma at Children\u2019s Hospitals During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A retrospective analysis determined that the rate of abusive head trauma (AHT) had decreased substantially among children during the pandemic. AHT was used as a surrogate for child abuse, as the authors hypothesized that it would be more difficult for caregivers to forgo care than for non-life-threatening abuse. Mean monthly hospital admissions for AHT across 49 US hospitals were lower from March to September 2020 compared to the same period in 2017-2019. Of the 750 AHT-related admissions from March to September in 2017-2020, only 127 (16%) occurred in 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maassel et al.\u00a0(Apr 20, 2021). Hospital Admissions for Abusive Head Trauma at Children\u2019s Hospitals During COVID-19. Pediatrics. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2021-050361\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2021-050361<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective analysis determined that the rate of abusive head trauma (AHT) had decreased substantially among children during the pandemic. AHT was used as a surrogate for child abuse, as the authors hypothesized that it would be more difficult for caregivers to forgo care than for non-life-threatening abuse. Mean monthly hospital admissions for AHT across&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/22\/hospital-admissions-for-abusive-head-trauma-at-childrens-hospitals-during-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-9373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}