Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units

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<p class="first" id="d16425752e278">The recent and ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken an unprecedented toll on adults critically ill with COVID-19 infection. While there is evidence that the burden of COVID-19 infection in hospitalized children is lesser than in their adult counterparts, to date, there are only limited reports describing COVID-19 in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). </p>

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Title: JAMA Pediatrics

Abbreviated Title: JAMA Pediatr

Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)

ISSN (Print): 2168-6203

Publication date (Electronic): May 11 2020

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[1 ]Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

[2 ]Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia

[3 ]Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

[4 ]Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

[5 ]Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

[6 ]Baystate Children’s Hospital, UMass Medical School Baystate Campus, Springfield, Massachusetts

[7 ]Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit

[8 ]Bristol-Myers Squibb Hospital, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

[9 ]NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York

[10 ]Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus

[11 ]Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

[12 ]Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle

[13 ]Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, University of Texas, Houston

[14 ]Children’s National Medical Center, George Washington School of Medicine, Washington, DC

Article

DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.1948

PMC ID: 7489842

PubMed ID: 32392288

SO-VID: 93bef347-151b-4845-989c-00e328a7fe1a

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