Staff Absenteeism and Delivery of Healthcare Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 Pandemic Clinical Trial

Official title:

Staff Absenteeism and Delivery of Healthcare Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Wiktor Dega Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Clinical Hospital in Poznań

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04521010
• Other study ID #: 3/2020/Reh
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: August 2020
• Source: Poznan University of Medical Sciences
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Work attendance of more than 700 hospital workers was evaluated. The assessment of the number of medical services that were performed was based on monthly reports prepared for the national payer of health services.

Description:

A retrospective analysis of above-mentioned data, covering the period January-April 2019 and January-April 2020, was carried out. The evaluation of the staff's absence included all workers employed under an employment contract: 713 workers in 2019 and 747 workers in 2020. The variable number of employees was a result of the employment dynamics in the subsequent 2 years, due to variable quantity of healthcare services that were contracted with the national payer and changes in the form of employment of some hospital workers.Three types of analyses were carried out: global analysis, analysis taking into account division into specific professions and the analysis of absence in different hospital organizational units/areas. The absences due to medical reasons, holidays or childcare were analyzed together. The analysis of performing the contracted tasks was shown in relative values ( %). The analysis included the structure of contracted services dividing them into: Orthopedics (alloplasty and others), rehabilitation (person-day), rheumatology (drug trials and others). Considering the rehabilitation unit, it was subdivided into inpatient and outpatient wards due to temporary closure of the outpatient ward.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 700
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2020
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

all workers employed under an employment contract Exclusion Criteria: not applicable

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• COVID-19 Pandemic

Intervention

Other:
• COVID-19 pandemic
The aim of the study was to evaluate the staff absenteeism in the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic at Wiktor Dega Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Clinical Hospital in Poznan Poznan as well as to assess the level of performance of medical services that were assigned to the Hospital under contract with National Health Fund, the payer of public health services in Poland.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Poland	Department of Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy Rehabilitation,	Poznan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Poznan University of Medical Sciences

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Poland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Number of days an individual person was absent	Number of days an individual person was absent during period of March and April 2020 (61 days)	March and April 2020
Primary	Number of days an individual person was absent	Number of days an individual person was absent during period of March and April 2019 (61 days)	March and April 2019