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The Increased Mortality Rate with Lower Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Study
Background: the COVID-19 pandemic with the following lockdown strategies have affected virtually all aspects of everyday life. Health services all over the world faced the crisis on an unprecedented scale, hampering timely care delivery. The present study was designed to assess the impact of the COV...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9601441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36292401 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101954 |
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author | Miękisiak, Grzegorz Szarek, Dariusz Pettersson, Samuel D. Pezowicz, Celina Morasiewicz, Piotr Kubaszewski, Łukasz Szmuda, Tomasz |
author_facet | Miękisiak, Grzegorz Szarek, Dariusz Pettersson, Samuel D. Pezowicz, Celina Morasiewicz, Piotr Kubaszewski, Łukasz Szmuda, Tomasz |
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description | Background: the COVID-19 pandemic with the following lockdown strategies have affected virtually all aspects of everyday life. Health services all over the world faced the crisis on an unprecedented scale, hampering timely care delivery. The present study was designed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the incidence and treatment of traumatic brain injuries in Poland. Methods: the data on hospital admissions with traumatic brain injuries as the primary diagnosis were extracted from the National Health Fund of Poland. For the purpose of this study, the search was limited to four relevant diagnosis-related groups. The overall in-house mortality was calculated. Results: there were 115,200 hospitalizations due to traumatic brain injury identified in the database. Overall, in comparison with the average of six prior years, in 2020 the volume of patients with traumatic brain injury dropped by 24.68% while the in-house mortality rate was increased by 26.75%. Conclusions: the COVID-19 pandemic with the resulting lockdown caused a radical reduction in human mobility. It had a profound impact on the incidence of traumatic brain injury, which dropped significantly. At the same time, the mortality rate increased drastically. |
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spelling | pubmed-96014412022-10-27 The Increased Mortality Rate with Lower Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Study Miękisiak, Grzegorz Szarek, Dariusz Pettersson, Samuel D. Pezowicz, Celina Morasiewicz, Piotr Kubaszewski, Łukasz Szmuda, Tomasz Healthcare (Basel) Article Background: the COVID-19 pandemic with the following lockdown strategies have affected virtually all aspects of everyday life. Health services all over the world faced the crisis on an unprecedented scale, hampering timely care delivery. The present study was designed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the incidence and treatment of traumatic brain injuries in Poland. Methods: the data on hospital admissions with traumatic brain injuries as the primary diagnosis were extracted from the National Health Fund of Poland. For the purpose of this study, the search was limited to four relevant diagnosis-related groups. The overall in-house mortality was calculated. Results: there were 115,200 hospitalizations due to traumatic brain injury identified in the database. Overall, in comparison with the average of six prior years, in 2020 the volume of patients with traumatic brain injury dropped by 24.68% while the in-house mortality rate was increased by 26.75%. Conclusions: the COVID-19 pandemic with the resulting lockdown caused a radical reduction in human mobility. It had a profound impact on the incidence of traumatic brain injury, which dropped significantly. At the same time, the mortality rate increased drastically. MDPI 2022-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9601441/ /pubmed/36292401 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101954 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Miękisiak, Grzegorz Szarek, Dariusz Pettersson, Samuel D. Pezowicz, Celina Morasiewicz, Piotr Kubaszewski, Łukasz Szmuda, Tomasz The Increased Mortality Rate with Lower Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Study |
title | The Increased Mortality Rate with Lower Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Study |
title_full | The Increased Mortality Rate with Lower Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Study |
title_fullStr | The Increased Mortality Rate with Lower Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Increased Mortality Rate with Lower Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Study |
title_short | The Increased Mortality Rate with Lower Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Study |
title_sort | increased mortality rate with lower incidence of traumatic brain injury during the covid-19 pandemic: a national study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9601441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36292401 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101954 |
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