The Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Emergency Department Visits of Surgical Patients
| Autor: | Muhammed Tahir Akça, Beslen Göksoy, Ömer Faruk Inanç |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Turkey Gastrointestinal Diseases Pneumonia Viral Anxiety Tertiary Care Centers Betacoronavirus 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pandemic medicine Humans Pandemics Stress Disorders Traumatic Acute Aged Retrospective Studies SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) COVID-19 Outbreak 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Retrospective cohort study Emergency department Middle Aged medicine.disease Triage Hospitalization Pneumonia Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Emergency medicine Emergency Medicine Female Surgery Observational study Coronavirus Infections Emergency Service Hospital business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Turkish Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. |
| ISSN: | 1306-696X |
| DOI: | 10.14744/etd.2020.67927 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) formed the basis for emergency department visits. This study aims to evaluate the effects of the pandemic on emergency department visits of surgical patients. METHODS The hospital database records of general surgery patients who presented at the emergency department in the period of March 2020-May 2020 (pandemic period) and March 2019-May 2019 (non-pandemic period) were retrospectively analyzed and compared. The primary outcome of this study was the emergency department visit rate of patients requiring a general surgery consultation. Secondary outcomes of this study were patient complaints, diagnosis and treatments, treatment rejection rate, triage category data, the effects of age and gender, and the hospitalization rate. RESULTS In this study, 618 patients were included: 265 patients from the pandemic period and 353 patients from the non-pandemic period. The analysis and comparison revealed that during the pandemic period, the presentation rate of female patients was lower than that of male patients (45.5% vs. 55.5%, respectively, p=0.045). The triage category rates of patient visits to the hospital during the pandemic period were higher in yellow and red, and lower in green (p |
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