Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgical Services in Singapore

Tan Tock Seng Hospital1,089 enrolled

Overview

This paper is intended to report our observational study in evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tan Tock Seng Hospital hepatopancreatobiliary unit's surgical workload from January to June across 2019 to 2022, corresponding to the pre-pandemic baseline to its peak and the gradual normalization of hospital services as Singapore entered the transition phase to COVID-19 resilience. A comparative audit of the unit's surgical workload for the months of January-June across 2019 to 2022, which corresponded to pre-COVID-19, the height of the pandemic, and a gradual normalization of surgical services. Operations performed by the unit were collected from the surgeons' electronic case logs. These operations were sorted based on the Singapore Ministry of Health's table of surgical procedures, which assigns charge codes to different procedures. The retrospective data across the 4 years were compared and analysed. No patient contact or identifiers were retrieved, stored or disseminated and thus exempt from ethics board review.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

1,089

Conditions

COVID-19 Surgery

Interventions

COVID-19 pandemicOTHER

To retrospectively review the surgical volume across 2019-2022 to see the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 120 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * all patients who underwent gallbladder, hernia, liver or pancreas resection surgeries during the periods of January to June of 2019/2020/2021/2022. Exclusion Criteria: * anyone who does not fall within the inclusion criteria

Locations (1)

Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Singapore, Singapore

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of surgeries done under general anaesthesia by the hepatopancreatobiliary unit

Operations performed by the unit will be collected from the surgeons' electronic case logs. These operations will be sorted based on the Singapore Ministry of Health's table of surgical procedures, which assigns charge codes to different procedures. The retrospective data across the 4 years will be compared and analysed.

Time frame: 2019-2022

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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