Open AccessImpact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hand Injuries
Author(s) -
Melekber Çavuş Özkan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1306-696X
DOI - 10.14744/tjtes.2021.75100
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , covid-19 , emergency department , etiology , pandemic , emergency medicine , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , pediatrics , poison control , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , disease , physics , psychiatry , optics
The aim of the study was to evaluate etiologies of hand injuries in emergency department (ED), to compare the etiologies of hand injuries at the time of this study with the previous year, to assess whether novel coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the treatment decisions, and to investigate the COVID-19 infection rate within the first 14 days after admission.