Open Access“Safer at home”: The effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on epidemiology, resource utilization, and outcomes at a large urban trauma center
Author(s) -
Hiroto Chiba,
Meghan Lewis,
Elizabeth Benjamin,
Dominik A. Jakob,
Panayiotis Liasidis,
Monica Wong,
S Sandoval Navarrete,
Robert Carreon,
Δημήτριος Δημητριάδης
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.25
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 2163-0763
pISSN - 2163-0755
DOI - 10.1097/ta.0000000000003061
Subject(s) - medicine , trauma center , epidemiology , emergency medicine , injury prevention , injury severity score , poison control , occupational safety and health , retrospective cohort study , medical emergency , surgery , pathology
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire global health care system. In California, because of a high burden of cases, a lockdown order was announced on March 19, 2020. This study investigated the impact of the lockdown on the epidemiology and outcomes of trauma admissions at the largest trauma center in Los Angeles.