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Odontogenic Infections: Disease Burden During COVID-19 at a Single Institution
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to document the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on patients presenting to the University of Washington Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (UW OMS) with an odontogenic infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The investigators designed a retrospective cohort...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7561523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33129751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joms.2020.10.015 |
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author | Johnson,, Robert E. Foy, Trayvon E. Ellingsen, Taylor A. Nelson, J. Luke Dillon, Jasjit K. |
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description | PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to document the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on patients presenting to the University of Washington Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (UW OMS) with an odontogenic infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The investigators designed a retrospective cohort study and enrolled a sample of 889 subjects who presented for an odontogenic infection from March 19 to June 18 in the years 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. The primary predictor variable was OMS consultation for an odontogenic infection during a non-COVID-19 (2017, 2018, and 2019) year (control) or during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 (experimental). The primary outcome variable was treatment rendered. Appropriate univariate and bivariate statistics were computed, and the level of significance was set at .05 for all tests. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in the incidence of OMS consults in the 2 cohorts (P > .05). The number of patients presenting to the UW emergency department (ED) for an odontogenic infection decreased from an average of 246 in non-COVID years to 151 in 2020. Patients in the experimental cohort were more likely (55 vs 30.0%; P = .04) to present primarily to UW than a dentist and were less likely to undergo an incision and drainage (70.0 vs 88.8%; P = .04), aerosol-generating procedure (70.0 vs 88.8%; P = .04), and incision and drainage in the ED (15.0 vs 41.3%; P = .03). CONCLUSIONS: The investigators did not find evidence of increased hospital or ED burden by odontogenic infections during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-75615232020-10-16 Odontogenic Infections: Disease Burden During COVID-19 at a Single Institution Johnson,, Robert E. Foy, Trayvon E. Ellingsen, Taylor A. Nelson, J. Luke Dillon, Jasjit K. J Oral Maxillofac Surg Pathology PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to document the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on patients presenting to the University of Washington Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (UW OMS) with an odontogenic infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The investigators designed a retrospective cohort study and enrolled a sample of 889 subjects who presented for an odontogenic infection from March 19 to June 18 in the years 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. The primary predictor variable was OMS consultation for an odontogenic infection during a non-COVID-19 (2017, 2018, and 2019) year (control) or during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 (experimental). The primary outcome variable was treatment rendered. Appropriate univariate and bivariate statistics were computed, and the level of significance was set at .05 for all tests. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in the incidence of OMS consults in the 2 cohorts (P > .05). The number of patients presenting to the UW emergency department (ED) for an odontogenic infection decreased from an average of 246 in non-COVID years to 151 in 2020. Patients in the experimental cohort were more likely (55 vs 30.0%; P = .04) to present primarily to UW than a dentist and were less likely to undergo an incision and drainage (70.0 vs 88.8%; P = .04), aerosol-generating procedure (70.0 vs 88.8%; P = .04), and incision and drainage in the ED (15.0 vs 41.3%; P = .03). CONCLUSIONS: The investigators did not find evidence of increased hospital or ED burden by odontogenic infections during the COVID-19 pandemic. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 2021-04 2020-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7561523/ /pubmed/33129751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joms.2020.10.015 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Pathology Johnson,, Robert E. Foy, Trayvon E. Ellingsen, Taylor A. Nelson, J. Luke Dillon, Jasjit K. Odontogenic Infections: Disease Burden During COVID-19 at a Single Institution |
title | Odontogenic Infections: Disease Burden During COVID-19 at a Single Institution |
title_full | Odontogenic Infections: Disease Burden During COVID-19 at a Single Institution |
title_fullStr | Odontogenic Infections: Disease Burden During COVID-19 at a Single Institution |
title_full_unstemmed | Odontogenic Infections: Disease Burden During COVID-19 at a Single Institution |
title_short | Odontogenic Infections: Disease Burden During COVID-19 at a Single Institution |
title_sort | odontogenic infections: disease burden during covid-19 at a single institution |
topic | Pathology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7561523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33129751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joms.2020.10.015 |
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