Multicentre service evaluation of presentation of newly diagnosed cancers and type 1 diabetes in children in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Authors: David Walker (Author), Pooja Sachdev (Author), Dhurgshaarna Shanmugavadivel (Author), Jo-Fen Liu (Author), Mark Brougham (Author), Elizabeth Bayman (Author), Rod T Mitchell (Author), James Law (Author), Madhumita Dandapani (Author), Gemma Williams (Author), Ross McLean (Author), Timothy A Ritzmann (Author), Nicholas T Conway (Author), Alice Cunnington (Author), Gbemi Ogunnaike (Author), Karen Brougham (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMJ Publishing Group, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in patterns of presentation to emergency departments. Child health professionals were concerned that this could contribute to the delayed diagnosis of life-threatening conditions, including childhood cancer (CC) and type 1 diabetes (T1DM). Our multicen...