{"id":1802,"date":"2018-01-08T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2018-01-08T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:21:00","slug":"the-spectrum-of-care-for-pediatric-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-at-a-tertiary-health-care-facility-in-switzerland-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"The spectrum of care for pediatric refugees and asylum seekers at a tertiary health care facility in Switzerland in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Christian Pohl, Ines Mack, Torsten Schmitz, Nicole Ritz<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00431-017-3014-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00431-017-3014-9<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><span id=\"more-1758\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<section class=\"abstract\">\n<p id=\"Par1\" class=\"Para\">The aim of this retrospective study was to describe the epidemiology and spectrum of infections of admitted pediatric refugees and asylum seekers in a tertiary referral hospital in a high-income country in Europe. We identified recent refugees and asylum seekers &lt;\u00a018\u00a0years of age admitted to the University Children\u2019s Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, in 2015. A retrospective analysis was performed using electronic patient records. We identified 105 admissions in 93 patients with a median age of 5.7 (IQR 2.6\u201314.5) years. Eritrea, Syria, and Afghanistan were the most frequent countries of origin. The median duration of admission was 4 (IQR 2\u20136) days with infections and elective surgical interventions being the most common reason (54.8 and 16.1%, respectively). Most infections were airway, skin, and gastrointestinal in 46.4, 20.2, and 11.9%, respectively. The prevalence of tropical infections was 11.9%. The main pathogens identified were influenza A virus (13.8%), <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Staphylococcus aureus<\/em> (10.3%), and rhino\/enterovirus (10.3%). Previous medical non-infectious conditions were recorded in 13%.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Par2\" class=\"Para\"><em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Conclusion<\/em>: The study revealed a high burden of infections in admitted patients mostly caused by well-known pathogens prevalent also in the local population. Both tropical infections and pre-existing non-infectious conditions are also important in admitted patients. Better epidemiological data is required to optimize health care for this medically most vulnerable population in refugee crises.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Christian Pohl, Ines Mack, Torsten Schmitz, Nicole Ritz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[48,7,50,318,9,157,468,472,473,103,143,144],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-48","tag-article","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-children","tag-english-language","tag-health-care","tag-illness","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-medical-screening","tag-refugees","tag-statistical-data","tag-vulnerability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}