Open AccessAre Hospitals Safe? A Prospective Study on SARS-CoV-2 Prevalence and Outcome on Surgical Fracture Patients: A Closer Look at Hip Fracture Patients
Author(s) -
Borja Segarra,
Nuria Ballesteros Heras,
Marian Viadel Ortiz,
Julio Ribes-Iborra,
Olalla Martínez-Macías,
David Cuesta-Peredó
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.0000000000001899
Subject(s) - medicine , hip fracture , covid-19 , prospective cohort study , emergency medicine , surgery , osteoporosis , virology , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
To describe clinical characteristics of fracture patients, including a closer look to hip fracture patients, and determine how epidemiological variables may have influenced on a higher vulnerability to SARS-CoV-2 infection, as the basis for the considerations needed to reintroduce elective surgery during the pandemic.