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

NCT04780594 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2530

Last updated 2021-03-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Covid19
  • Surgery--Complications
  • Nosocomial Infection

Interventions

PROCEDURE

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

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)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maria Jose MJ Colomina, PhD · Head of the Department

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-02-13
Primary Completion
2020-05-15
Completion
2020-12-09

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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