Children (Basel, Switzerland)
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Resilience Against COVID-19: How Italy Faced the Pandemic in Pediatric Orthopedics and Traumatology.
We aimed to investigate the variation of medical and surgical activities in pediatric orthopedics in Italy, during the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in comparison with data from the previous two years. The differences among the first wave, phase 2 and second wave were also analyzed. ⋯ Our study represents the first nationwide survey quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric orthopedics and traumatology during the first and second wave.