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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Development of Case Numbers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Center of Maximum-Care for Traumatology and Orthopedic Oncology.

Christina Polan, Manuel Burggraf, Max Daniel Kauther, Heinz-Lothar Meyer, Friederike Rademacher, Henrik Braitsch, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Jendrik Hardes, Arne Streitbürger, Marcel Dudda

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christina PolanDepartment of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Manuel BurggrafDepartment of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6191-7360
Max Daniel KautherDepartment of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Heinz-Lothar MeyerDepartment of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Friederike RademacherDepartment of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Henrik BraitschCentral Department of Medical Controlling, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Karl-Heinz JöckelInstitute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Jendrik HardesDepartment of Tumor Orthopedics, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Arne StreitbürgerDepartment of Tumor Orthopedics, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Marcel DuddaDepartment of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Essen University Hospital · DEInstitut für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant change in the utilization of trauma surgery and tumor orthopedic hospital facilities. (2) Methods: In a monocentric retrospective analysis, the weekly numbers of cases requiring intra-clinical treatment in the first four months of 2020 were compared with those of 2019. Patients' visits to the emergency department and shock room, consultation hours, work-related accidents, case numbers in the normal and intensive care units, ventilation hours, the "Simplified Acute Physiology Score/ Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System" (SAPS/TISS), the average length of stay in hospital, the number of operations and their degree of urgency, as well as deaths, were analyzed in a study based on the data from 7606 outpatient consultations in 2019 and 6755 in 2020, as well as 993 inpatient cases in 2019 and 950 in 2020. (3) Results: There was a significant reduction in the number of treatments per week in the emergency department (261 ± 29 vs. 165 ± 25;

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case numberscoronavirusCOVID-19emergency medicinehospital capacityorthopedicspandemicpublic health

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PMID33375208
PMCPMC7822100
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