Open AccessEffect of Shelter-in-Place Orders and the COVID-19 Pandemic on Orthopaedic Trauma at a Community Level II Trauma Center
Author(s) -
Steven Stoker,
Dalton McDaniel,
Trevor Crean,
Joshua Maddox,
Gurkirat Jawanda,
Neal Krentz,
Jacob Best,
Mark Speicher,
Ryan Siwiec
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of orthopaedic trauma
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1531-2291
pISSN - 0890-5339
DOI - 10.1097/bot.0000000000001860
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , trauma center , pandemic , retrospective cohort study , surgery , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
To evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and the "shelter-in-place" order on orthopaedic trauma presenting to a community level II trauma center. It is hypothesized that the overall number of orthopaedic trauma encounters (OTEs), the number of OTEs related to both high and low severity injuries, and the proportion of OTEs related to high severity versus low severity injuries decreased compared with previous years.