Covid -19 Pandemic: Economic Burden on Patients Operated for Traumatic Close Fractures

Aga Khan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Economic Burden

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04482205

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Covid-19 has adversely impacted the health care organizations by over burdening with Covid patients and suspending the elective surgeries and clinics A single center retrospective study was conducted to quantify losses due to postponement of elective surgeries and extra cost for procurement of PPEs. The secondary objective was to see the effect of Covid -19 on the total costs of inpatient care during Covid era.

Full description

Covid-19 has impacted adversely the economy of Pakistan that has already poor and challenged socioeconomic conditions This is a single hospital retrospective cross sectional study conducted to quantify losses due postponement of elective surgeries and procurement of PPEs and see the effect of Covid -19 on the total costs of inpatient care during Covid era.

We included all the patients admitted in orthopedic section for operative intervention of fractures and elective procedures from January 1, 2020 to May 31, 2020. We divided this period into two halves; the first half was from January first to March 15 named as PreCovid Era and second half was from March 16, to May 31, 2020, termed as Covid Era. The total number of trauma procedures and elective procedures were compared in both eras. We compared six procedures each from upper and lower limit for cost analysis and length of stay. We also analyzed the extra cost for procurement of PPEs.

Enrollment: 840 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All the patients admitted in orthopedic section for operative intervention of fractures and elective procedures from January 1, 2020 to May 31, 2020.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients presenting with other bone morbidities that did not require surgical interventions including rickets, osteomalacia, osteogenesis imperfecta, marble bone disease (osteopetrosis), Paget disease of bone, and fibrous dysplasia, patients with incomplete medical records were excluded from the study.

Trial design

840 participants in 2 patient groups

precovid group

Description:

those who were operated from fJanuary first to March 15

covid

Description:

those operated from March 16, to May 31, 2020