Three Years of COVID-19 on Orthopaedic Trauma; Are We Going Back to Normality?

Vittorio Candela, Riccardo Proietti, Giuseppe Polizzotti, Marco Rionero, Stefano Gumina

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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in

3citing papers in PubMed

0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

Analyzing Trends in the Incidence of Trauma and Mechanisms of Injury Before, During, and After COVID-19 Lockdown in a Staten Island Level 1 Trauma Center.Cureus · 2026
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Impact of COVID-19 on orthopedic trauma patients from 2021 to 2022 when restrictions were lifted, compared with the pre-pandemic period.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025
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What happened to the most frequent surgeries performed in the Brazilian Unified Health System during and after the COVID-19 pandemic? An analysis of 2 million procedures.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2025
Observational

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vittorio CandelaDepartment of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopaedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5962-2598

Riccardo ProiettiDepartment of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopaedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.

Giuseppe PolizzottiDepartment of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopaedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.

Marco RioneroDepartment of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopaedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.

Stefano GuminaDepartment of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopaedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.

Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli · ITSapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PMID37629754

DOI10.3390/medicina59081464

PMCPMC10456244

OpenAlexW4385878968

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