Elisabeth Pedersen, Elena Tripodi, Mia Aakjaer, Huiqi Li, Anna Cantarutti, Fredrik Nyberg, Morten Andersen, Angela Lupattelli, Hedvig Nordeng
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected children and adolescents in several ways, including worsened mental health, improvement of asthma, and increases in diabetes ketoacidosis. Less is known about how medication use in children and adolescents has been affected by the pandemic. OBJECTIVES: To explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affected drug utilisation in children and adolescents in Norway, Sweden, and Italy, by child age. METHODS: We conducted a longitudinal drug utilisation study among all children and adolescents (<18 years old) in Norway and Sweden and a nationwide paediatric database covering 3% of the paediatric population in Italy...
February 1, 2024: Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology