Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on hip fractures: the central London experience COVID-related urgent geriatric hip trauma (COUGH) study COVERT ( COVid Emergency-Related Trauma and orthopaedics) collaborative
| العنوان: | Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on hip fractures: the central London experience COVID-related urgent geriatric hip trauma (COUGH) study COVERT ( COVid Emergency-Related Trauma and orthopaedics) collaborative |
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| المؤلفون: | Charles Gibbons, Chang Park, Nadia Pakroo, Michael Fertleman, Kapil Sugand, Khaled M Sarraf, A. Aframian, Rajarshi Bhattacharya, Catrin Morgan, Dinesh Nathwani |
| المصدر: | Irish Journal of Medical Science Irish journal of medical science, 191(3):1005-1012 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, National hip fracture database, Epidemiology, Hip fracture, COVID-19, Best practice tariff, Mortality, Neck of femur fracture, Surgery, 03 medical and health sciences, Medicine, General & Internal, 0302 clinical medicine, General & Internal Medicine, Pandemic, London, Global health, Medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Pandemics, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, Aged, Retrospective Studies, 030222 orthopedics, Science & Technology, business.industry, Hip Fractures, General Medicine, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Orthopedics, Cough, Orthopedic surgery, Emergency medicine, Communicable Disease Control, Observational study, Original Article, Performance indicator, AUDIT, business, Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| الوصف: | Introduction COVID-19 has been recognized as the unprecedented global health crisis in modern times. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 on treatment of neck of femur fractures (NOFF) against the current guidelines and meeting best practice key performance indicators (KPIs) according to the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) in two large central London hospitals. Materials and methods A multi-center, longitudinal, retrospective, observational study of NOFF patients was performed for the first ‘golden’ month following the lockdown measures introduced in mid-March 2020. This was compared to the same time period in 2019. Results A total of 78 cases were observed. NOFFs accounted for 11% more of all acute referrals during the COVID era. There were fewer overall breaches in KPIs in time to theatre in 2020 and also for those awaiting an orthogeriatric review. Time to discharge from the trust during the pandemic was improved by 54% (p Conclusion The impact of COVID-19 pandemic has not adversely affected the KPIs for the treatment of NOFF patients with significant improvement in numerous care domains. These findings may represent the efforts to ensure that these vulnerable patients are treated promptly to minimize their risks from the coronavirus. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1863-4362 0021-1265 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::86d9f8994259a30b4820058eea5f624f http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8238478 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....86d9f8994259a30b4820058eea5f624f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 18634362 00211265 |
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