Reasons for admission in asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients in a paediatric tertiary care centre.
CONCLUSION: Asylum-seeking children represent a small number of total admissions. Age distribution and main reason for admission being diseases of the respiratory system were comparable in asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking children. Rare infections and mental health disorders are important diseases in asylum-seeking children and require special attention and training of staff working with paediatric asylum seekers.
PMID: 32459858 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - Category: General Medicine Authors: Gmünder M, Brandenberger J, Buser S, Pohl C, Ritz N Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research
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