Characterizing the volume of surgery and post-operative complications during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented changes in volume and quality of surgery. Utilizing the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database, the current study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on surgical volume during each quarter of 2020 in comparison to 2019. Quality of surgical care during 2020 was also investigated by assessing postoperative complications, readmissions, and reoperations during 2020 in comparison to the previous 5 years.

Materials and methods

The NSQIP database was queried from 2015 to 2020. Descriptive statistics and a chi-squared test were utilized to compare demographic variables. A seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average time-series model was fit to assess the trend and seasonality of

SUBMITTER: Moss WD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9297262 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature