Injury Patterns and Outcomes at a Single Pediatric Trauma Center During the Coronavirus Disease 19 Pandemic

The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic is reported to have changed injury patterns, prevalence, and outcomes across multiple institutions in the United States. Interpretation of aggregate data is difficult because injury patterns vary between urban and rural hospitals and the implementation of locoregional public health policies and guidelines in response to COVID-19 differed. To prepare our trauma system for future societal shutdowns, we compared injury patterns and outcomes of injured children and adolescents at a single pediatric trauma center before and during the first 2 y of the COVID-19 pandemic. We abstracted demographic, injury, and outcome data for injured children and adolescents (age