NCT06237023

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Orthopedic Trauma Management

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Orthopedic Trauma Management; a Cross-sectional Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 57,635 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Research and Training Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to compare emergency orthopedic trauma admissions between the pre-pandemic period and the pandemic period and to detect changes in orthopedic trauma epidemiology.

Detailed description

The aim of the study is to compare emergency orthopedic trauma admissions between the pre-pandemic period and the pandemic period and to detect changes in orthopedic trauma epidemiology. For this purpose, an epidemiological study was conducted in our country, comparing trauma admissions to a level 1 trauma hospital during a one-year period before the pandemic with those in the year following the onset of the pandemic.Demographic characteristics of the patients, such as age and gender, were recorded. In addition, the injury mechanisms of the patients, diagnosis, injured extremityor anatomical region, broken bone, fracture classification, multitrauma rates, trauma releated complications, hospitalization days, and treatment modalities were examined.

Conditions

• Trauma
• COVID-19 Pandemic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	epidemyolojical	The aim of the study is to compare emergency orthopedic trauma admissions between the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods, and to identify changes in the epidemiology of orthopedic trauma.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-01
• Primary completion: 2021-03-31
• Completion: 2021-11-01
• First posted: 2024-02-01
• Last updated: 2024-02-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)