Impact on the service volume of a single hand surgery center during the COVID-19 pandemic period in Daegu

Autor:	Young Woo Kim, Sang Hyun Woo, Sang Ho Oh
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Service (business) medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry Pandemic medicine General Earth and Planetary Sciences Center (algebra and category theory) Hand surgery Medical emergency medicine.disease business General Environmental Science
Zdroj:	Archives of Hand and Microsurgery. 27:23-32
ISSN:	2586-3533 2586-3290
Popis:	Purpose: We investigated what changes occurred at single hand surgery center during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Daegu, Korea using patient data of 4 years (2018–2021).Methods: This is a single-center retrospective study of patients visiting our center during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 22 to May 6, 2020) in comparison to the most recent 4 years from 2018 to 2021. Service volumes (SVs) including the number of in/outpatients, emergency room, elective, and emergency surgeries were analyzed. The demographics, injury mechanism, and place of injury of hand trauma were analyzed in patients seen during the peak period of COVID-19 (February 24 to March 9, 2020) at W Hospital.Results: SVs were significantly reduced in 2020 as compared with other years. The SVs except for the number of emergency surgeries have recovered after 2 months from the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Daegu, Korea. At the peak period, the effect of COVID-19 was weak on emergency room-related SVs. In addition, a daily number of in/outpatients and elective surgeries had a statistically significant negative correlation with the number of COVID-19 confirmed (p
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