COVID-19 and regional differences in the timeliness of hip-fracture surgery: an interrupted time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is of great importance to examine the impact of the healthcare reorganization adopted to confront the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of care provided to non-COVID-19 patients. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 national lockdown (March 9, 2020) on the quality of care provided to patients with hip fracture (HF) in Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna, two large regions of northern Italy severely hit by the pandemic.

Methods

We calculated the percentage of HF patients undergoing surgery within 2 days of hospital admission. An interrupted time-series analysis was performed on weekly data from December 11, 2019 to June 9, 2020 (≈6 months), interrupting the series in the 2nd week of March. The same data observed the year before were included as a

SUBMITTER: Golinelli D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8415287 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature