COVID-19 Pandemic and General Surgery Emergencies

NCT ID: NCT04686708

Last Updated: 2020-12-29

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

750 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-03-11

Study Completion Date

2020-09-11

Brief Summary

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A retrospective analysis of emergency general surgical admissions during the first six months of the pandemic (from March 11 to September 11, 2020) and the same period in 2019, will be conducted.

Detailed Description

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The volume and disease severity of emergency general surgery admissions between the first six-month period of the pandemic and the similar time period in the prepandemic period in 2019 will be compared.

Patients admitted during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 11 to September 11, 2020, will be included. As a comparison group, similar data will be collected on patients admitted to the general surgery department during the same period in 2019. Patient and disease characteristics, including demographics, initial leukocyte and C-reactive protein levels, diagnosis, treatment strategies, complications, duration of hospital stay, 30-day rehospitalization rate, and 30-day reoperation rate will be reviewed. Complications will be classified according to Clavien-Dindo classification. Tokyo Guidelines 2018/2013 will be used to assess the severity of the acute cholecystitis.

After the patients are divided into two groups: (1) prepandemic period and (2) pandemic period, descriptive statistics will be presented as the medians and ranges, and frequencies (%). Associations between variables will be evaluated using the Mann-Whitney U test (for continuous variables) or Pearson's chi-square and Fisher exact tests (for categorical variables), where appropriate.

Conditions

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Emergencies

Keywords

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COVID-19 emergency treatment general surgery pandemic

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Pre-pandemic period

Patients managed in the pre-pandemic period

Emergency general surgical admissions

Intervention Type OTHER

All emergency general surgical admissions are admitted initially to the emergency department and then referred to the general surgery department for further management (medical, interventional, or surgical approaches).

Pandemic period

Patients managed in the pandemic period

Emergency general surgical admissions

Intervention Type OTHER

All emergency general surgical admissions are admitted initially to the emergency department and then referred to the general surgery department for further management (medical, interventional, or surgical approaches).

Interventions

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Emergency general surgical admissions

All emergency general surgical admissions are admitted initially to the emergency department and then referred to the general surgery department for further management (medical, interventional, or surgical approaches).

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients aged 18 years and older
* Patients admitted during the first six months of the pandemic, from March 11 to September 11, 2020, and patients admitted during the same period in 2019

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients younger than 18 years
* Patients positive for COVID-19
* Patients required elective surgery
* Patients re-operated because of a postoperative complication of an elective surgical procedure
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Gulhane Training and Research Hospital

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Suleyman Utku Celik

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Gulhane Training and Research Hospital

Ankara, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status

Countries

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Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

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Gulhane2020-258

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id