An observational study in COVID-19 and Surgery, sponsored by Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Completed at 1 site in Singapore. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 120 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-10-10.
Sponsored by Tan Tock Seng Hospital · Observational
This paper is intended to report our observational study in evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tan Tock Seng Hospital hepatopancreatobiliary unit's surgical workload from January to June across 2019 to 2022, corresponding to the pre-pandemic baseline to its peak and the gradual normalization of hospital services as Singapore entered the transition phase to COVID-19 resilience.
This paper is intended to report our observational study in evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tan Tock Seng Hospital hepatopancreatobiliary unit's surgical workload from January to June across 2019 to 2022, corresponding to the pre-pandemic baseline to its peak and the gradual normalization of hospital services as Singapore entered the transition phase to COVID-19 resilience.
A comparative audit of the unit's surgical workload for the months of January-June across 2019 to 2022, which corresponded to pre-COVID-19, the height of the pandemic, and a gradual normalization of surgical services. Operations performed by the unit were collected from the surgeons' electronic case logs. These operations were sorted based on the Singapore Ministry of Health's table of surgical procedures, which assigns charge codes to different procedures. The retrospective data across the 4 years were compared and analysed.
No patient contact or identifiers were retrieved, stored or disseminated and thus exempt from ethics board review.
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All patients who underwent gallbladder, hernia, liver or pancreas resection surgeries during the periods of January to June of 2019/2020/2021/2022.
Exclusion Criteria:
No intervention will be carried out. The sum total of surgeries carried out during 2019 will be audited to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the surgical volume.
Other: COVID-19 pandemic
No intervention will be carried out. The sum total of surgeries carried out during 2020 will be audited to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the surgical volume.
Other: COVID-19 pandemic
No intervention will be carried out. The sum total of surgeries carried out during 2021 will be audited to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the surgical volume.
Other: COVID-19 pandemic
No intervention will be carried out. The sum total of surgeries carried out during 2022 will be audited to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the surgical volume.
Other: COVID-19 pandemic
To retrospectively review the surgical volume across 2019-2022 to see the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Number of surgeries done under general anaesthesia by the hepatopancreatobiliary unit
Operations performed by the unit will be collected from the surgeons' electronic case logs. These operations will be sorted based on the Singapore Ministry of Health's table of surgical procedures, which assigns charge codes to different procedures. The retrospective data across the 4 years will be compared and analysed.
Time frame: 2019-2022
Plan to share: No — There is no plan to make IPD available.
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