Covid -19 Pandemic: Economic Burden on Patients Operated for Traumatic Close Fractures in Musculoskeletal Service Line of a Tertiary Care Hospital
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 840
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- the effect of Covid -19 on the total costs of inpatient care
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •All the patients admitted in orthopedic section for operative intervention of fractures and elective procedures from January 1, 2020 to May 31, 2020.
排除标准
- •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.
结局指标
主要结局
the effect of Covid -19 on the total costs of inpatient care
时间窗: 5 months
the effect of Covid -19 on the total costs of inpatient care during Covid era
次要结局
- drop in the collective revenue generated in covid era(5 months)