Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic on Emergency Surgery Practice

Ibrahim Khrais

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emergencies

Treatments: Other: Observational study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04815135

10-2021-5926

Details and patient eligibility

About

A retrospective study at a tertiary university hospital to determine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emergency surgery practice in the hospital.

Full description

The investigators conducted a retrospective review of all the patients who were admitted to the surgical wards through the emergency department at the Jordan University Hospital in the periods from March 2020 to May 2020. The records were compared to those of the patients who were admitted in the same period from the year 2019.

Data collection includes the number of admissions, the reason for admission, the average of symptoms duration until admission, the age of the patients admitted, gender, type of management, and the average length of stay before discharging the patients.

Enrollment: 344 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients who were admitted to the surgical wards via the emergency department during the study periods

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

344 participants in 2 patient groups

2020 group (COVID19 group)

Description:

Patients who were admitted to the surgical ward via the emergency department during the lockdown period due to the COVID19 pandemic

Treatment:

Other: Observational study

2019 group (pre COVID19 group)

Description:

Patients who were admitted to the surgical ward via the emergency department during the similar period in 2019