Economic Burden Clinical Trial
Official title:
Covid -19 Pandemic: Economic Burden on Patients Operated for Traumatic Close Fractures in Musculoskeletal Service Line of a Tertiary Care Hospital
Covid-19 has adversely impacted the health care organizations by over burdening with Covid patients and suspending the elective surgeries and clinics A single center retrospective study was conducted to quantify losses due to postponement of elective surgeries and extra cost for procurement of PPEs. The secondary objective was to see the effect of Covid -19 on the total costs of inpatient care during Covid era.
Covid-19 has impacted adversely the economy of Pakistan that has already poor and challenged
socioeconomic conditions This is a single hospital retrospective cross sectional study
conducted to quantify losses due postponement of elective surgeries and procurement of PPEs
and see the effect of Covid -19 on the total costs of inpatient care during Covid era.
We included all the patients admitted in orthopedic section for operative intervention of
fractures and elective procedures from January 1, 2020 to May 31, 2020. We divided this
period into two halves; the first half was from January first to March 15 named as PreCovid
Era and second half was from March 16, to May 31, 2020, termed as Covid Era. The total number
of trauma procedures and elective procedures were compared in both eras. We compared six
procedures each from upper and lower limit for cost analysis and length of stay. We also
analyzed the extra cost for procurement of PPEs.
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