COVID-19 and mortality in surgical patients
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Surgical mortality during the COVID-19 pandemicSurgery
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN97118839
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of the Witwatersrand
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 438
Inclusion Criteria
All patients who were admitted to the surgical department and died in hospital during the study period
Exclusion Criteria
Patients whose final diagnosis at death was not surgical
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The rate of occurrence of preventable mortalities among surgical patients who died during admission measured using data collected from medical records over 2 years from the 1st March 2020 to 31st March 2022<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Factors that contributed to preventable surgical mortalities measured using data collected from medical records over 2 years from the 1st March 2020 to 31st March 2022