The impact of COVID-19 on surgical procedures in Japan: analysis of data from the National Clinical Database.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

The spread of COVID-19 has restricted the delivery of standard medical care to surgical patients dramatically. Surgical triage is performed by considering the type of disease, its severity, the urgency for surgery, and the condition of the patient, in addition to the scale of infectious outbreaks in the region. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of surgical procedures performed and whether the effects were more prominent during certain periods of widespread infection and in the affected regions.

Methods

We selected 20 of the most common procedures from each surgical field and compared the weekly numbers of each operation performed in 2020 with the respective numbers in 2018 and 2019, as recorded

SUBMITTER: Ikeda N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8592826 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature