Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgical Services in Singapore

Completed

• Conditions: Surgery; COVID-19
• Interventions: Other: COVID-19 pandemic

• Registration Number: NCT05572866
• Lead Sponsor: Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Brief Summary

This paper is intended to report our observational study in evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tan Tock Seng Hospital hepatopancreatobiliary unit's surgical workload from January to June across 2019 to 2022, corresponding to the pre-pandemic baseline to its peak and the gradual normalization of hospital services as Singapore entered the transition phase to COVID-19 resilience.

Detailed Description

This paper is intended to report our observational study in evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tan Tock Seng Hospital hepatopancreatobiliary unit's surgical workload from January to June across 2019 to 2022, corresponding to the pre-pandemic baseline to its peak and the gradual normalization of hospital services as Singapore entered the transition phase to COVID-19 resilience.

A comparative audit of the unit's surgical workload for the months of January-June across 2019 to 2022, which corresponded to pre-COVID-19, the height of the pandemic, and a gradual normalization of surgical services. Operations performed by the unit were collected from the surgeons' electronic case logs. These operations were sorted based on the Singapore Ministry of Health's table of surgical procedures, which assigns charge codes to different procedures. The retrospective data across the 4 years were compared and analysed.

No patient contact or identifiers were retrieved, stored or disseminated and thus exempt from ethics board review.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2022-06-30
• Study Completion: 2022-06-30
• Status Verified: 2022-10
• Study First Submitted: 2022-10-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-10-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-10-07
• Study First Posted: 2022-10-10
• Last Update Posted: 2022-10-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1089

Inclusion Criteria

• all patients who underwent gallbladder, hernia, liver or pancreas resection surgeries during the periods of January to June of 2019/2020/2021/2022.

Exclusion Criteria

• anyone who does not fall within the inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
2020	COVID-19 pandemic	No intervention will be carried out. The sum total of surgeries carried out during 2020 will be audited to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the surgical volume.
2022	COVID-19 pandemic	No intervention will be carried out. The sum total of surgeries carried out during 2022 will be audited to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the surgical volume.
2019	COVID-19 pandemic	No intervention will be carried out. The sum total of surgeries carried out during 2019 will be audited to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the surgical volume.
2021	COVID-19 pandemic	No intervention will be carried out. The sum total of surgeries carried out during 2021 will be audited to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the surgical volume.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of surgeries done under general anaesthesia by the hepatopancreatobiliary unit	2019-2022	Operations performed by the unit will be collected from the surgeons' electronic case logs. These operations will be sorted based on the Singapore Ministry of Health's table of surgical procedures, which assigns charge codes to different procedures. The retrospective data across the 4 years will be compared and analysed.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tan Tock Seng Hospital; 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore