Temporal changes in trauma according to alcohol sale restrictions during the South African national COVID-19 lockdown.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The South African government enforced various alcohol sale restrictions during the COVID-19 lockdown in order to reduce hospital admissions related to alcohol-associated injuries. A cross-sectional study was performed to describe the temporal changes in trauma according to alcohol sale restrictions during the South African national COVID-19 lockdown.

Methods

Data from all trauma-related patients presenting to the emergency centre of Mitchells Plain Hospital from 01/03/2020 till 29/9/2020 and corresponding periods during 2019 were exported from an existing database. The relationship between variables was determined with the χ²-test, Fisher's exact test, independent samples median test or t-test. A sub-analysis compared similar 2020 lockdown leve

SUBMITTER: van Hoving DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8410509 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature