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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the care of severe burns in Japan: Repeated survey of specialized burn care facilities

BACKGROUND: The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which began in 2020, has had a major impact on healthcare systems. The spread of COVID-19 has been reported to have affected the readiness to treat patients with burns worldwide. However, the existing reports have evaluated burn care sta...

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Autores principales: Kiyozumi, Tetsuro, Saitoh, Daizoh, Ogura, Takayuki, Morino, Kazuma, Takeda, Taichi, Narumi, Atsushi, Hashimoto, Ichiro, Sasaki, Junichi, Sakurai, Hiroyuki
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Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9225939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35787968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2022.06.012
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author Kiyozumi, Tetsuro
Saitoh, Daizoh
Ogura, Takayuki
Morino, Kazuma
Takeda, Taichi
Narumi, Atsushi
Hashimoto, Ichiro
Sasaki, Junichi
Sakurai, Hiroyuki
author_facet Kiyozumi, Tetsuro
Saitoh, Daizoh
Ogura, Takayuki
Morino, Kazuma
Takeda, Taichi
Narumi, Atsushi
Hashimoto, Ichiro
Sasaki, Junichi
Sakurai, Hiroyuki
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description BACKGROUND: The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which began in 2020, has had a major impact on healthcare systems. The spread of COVID-19 has been reported to have affected the readiness to treat patients with burns worldwide. However, the existing reports have evaluated burn care status within a limited time period during the pandemic, and no report clarifies the change in the impact of infection status on burn care from the beginning of the pandemic to the present. METHODS: Japanese Society for Burn Injuries–accredited burn care facilities were surveyed using questionnaires on April 9–23, 2020; June 23–July 6, 2020; July 9–21, 2021; and January 21–31, 2022. Differences between groups were evaluated using Friedman’s test or Bonferroni’s multiple comparison test, as appropriate. RESULTS: From the 103 facilities included in the study, we received 85, 55, 56, and 58 responses in the first, second, third, and fourth surveys, respectively. We could continuously observe 34 facilities. The rate of acceptance of patients with severe burns improved significantly over time (P < 0.05). However, in the second and third surveys, there was an increase in the number of respondents who did not accept patients with burns irrespective of COVID-19 status. CONCLUSIONS: The number of facilities treating patients with burns who have COVID-19 is increasing; however, COVID-19 care may negatively impact routine burn care. It is necessary to continuously examine medical resource allocation through methods such as information sharing by academic societies.
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spelling pubmed-92259392022-06-24 Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the care of severe burns in Japan: Repeated survey of specialized burn care facilities Kiyozumi, Tetsuro Saitoh, Daizoh Ogura, Takayuki Morino, Kazuma Takeda, Taichi Narumi, Atsushi Hashimoto, Ichiro Sasaki, Junichi Sakurai, Hiroyuki Burns Article BACKGROUND: The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which began in 2020, has had a major impact on healthcare systems. The spread of COVID-19 has been reported to have affected the readiness to treat patients with burns worldwide. However, the existing reports have evaluated burn care status within a limited time period during the pandemic, and no report clarifies the change in the impact of infection status on burn care from the beginning of the pandemic to the present. METHODS: Japanese Society for Burn Injuries–accredited burn care facilities were surveyed using questionnaires on April 9–23, 2020; June 23–July 6, 2020; July 9–21, 2021; and January 21–31, 2022. Differences between groups were evaluated using Friedman’s test or Bonferroni’s multiple comparison test, as appropriate. RESULTS: From the 103 facilities included in the study, we received 85, 55, 56, and 58 responses in the first, second, third, and fourth surveys, respectively. We could continuously observe 34 facilities. The rate of acceptance of patients with severe burns improved significantly over time (P < 0.05). However, in the second and third surveys, there was an increase in the number of respondents who did not accept patients with burns irrespective of COVID-19 status. CONCLUSIONS: The number of facilities treating patients with burns who have COVID-19 is increasing; however, COVID-19 care may negatively impact routine burn care. It is necessary to continuously examine medical resource allocation through methods such as information sharing by academic societies. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2023-06 2022-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9225939/ /pubmed/35787968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2022.06.012 Text en © 2022 The Authors 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.
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Kiyozumi, Tetsuro
Saitoh, Daizoh
Ogura, Takayuki
Morino, Kazuma
Takeda, Taichi
Narumi, Atsushi
Hashimoto, Ichiro
Sasaki, Junichi
Sakurai, Hiroyuki
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the care of severe burns in Japan: Repeated survey of specialized burn care facilities
title Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the care of severe burns in Japan: Repeated survey of specialized burn care facilities
title_full Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the care of severe burns in Japan: Repeated survey of specialized burn care facilities
title_fullStr Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the care of severe burns in Japan: Repeated survey of specialized burn care facilities
title_full_unstemmed Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the care of severe burns in Japan: Repeated survey of specialized burn care facilities
title_short Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the care of severe burns in Japan: Repeated survey of specialized burn care facilities
title_sort impact of covid-19 pandemic on the care of severe burns in japan: repeated survey of specialized burn care facilities
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9225939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35787968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2022.06.012
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