NCT04780594 - Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Surgical Activity of Bellvitge University Hospital | Crick

Overview

COVID-19 has been a challenge for hospitals; there was an obvious need to reconvert many spaces in specific areas to attend this pathology, without forgetting the attention to other pathologies and surgery. The objective of the investigators is to evaluate the impact of this pandemic in the patients who underwent surgery in Bellvitge University Hospital, analyzing 2 periods of time: the months before the COVID-19 peak and the COVID-19 peak months.

A total of 2.530 procedures have been evaluated in this retrospective observational study. Two groups have been generated (pre-pandemic period and pandemic period), classified into scheduled and emergency surgery. The investigators determined age, type of surgery and specialty, hospital stay, destination at discharge including mortality and severity according to Diagnostic Related to Group (DRG) scale. The investigators have also determined the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in patients who underwent surgery during these 2 periods and evaluated if the infection was due to a nosocomial infection (confirmation of the COVID-19 during the hospitalization period). Comparisons were made between subgroups: scheduled surgery performed during the 2 periods and emergency surgery performed during the 2 periods.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

2,530

Conditions

Covid19 Surgery--Complications Nosocomial Infection

Interventions

The study evaluates all surgical patients operated, both elective scheduled and emergent casesPROCEDURE

Administrative database was automatically collected. That included demographic, clinical antecedents, surgical team and surgical procedure, primary and secondary diagnoses and principal and secondary surgical procedures. A case-mix grouping system administrative automatic recorded based on the ICD-10-AM International Classification of Diseases. According to the Diagnoses-related Groups (DRG's). the Severity of Illness Index assigns to each patient an overall severity score (from 1 to 4) and mortality risk score (from 1 to 4)

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * All surgical patients operated, both elective scheduled and emergent cases Exclusion Criteria: * Minor-intermediate surgery that involves discharge from the hospital on the same day of the surgery from the Pre-pandemic period. * Procedures related to medical treatment or complications of COVID-19 patients, such as chest tubes, extracorporeal oxygenation or tracheostomy. * Those scheduled elective surgery patients in the Covid period that resulted RT-PCR positive, surgery was posponed, were not considered eligible for the analysis.

Locations (1)

Marta Caballero

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain