@article{Utomo_Haridhi_Yudistira_2021, title={A One-year COVID-19 Pandemic Effect on the Orthopaedic Field in Indonesia: A Cross-sectional Multi-center Study}, volume={9}, url={https://oamjms.eu/index.php/mjms/article/view/6927}, DOI={10.3889/oamjms.2021.6927}, abstractNote={<div> <p class="Pa6"><strong><span lang="EN-US">BACKGROUND: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">The World Health Organization announced the COVID-19 outbreak as a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Despite the fact that orthopedists are not considered front-line staff in the fight against the pandemic, the pandemic has had an enormous impact on orthopedics daily practice. A few studies have looked at the pandemic effect on the orthopedics field, but none have looked at the impact of a 1-year pandemic, especially in Indonesia.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="Pa6"><strong><span lang="EN-US">MATERIALS AND METHODS: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">This cross-sectional multi-center study was conducted at seven tertiary referral hospitals in Indonesia. Through hospital medical records, data were collected for a year, starting from the month the Indonesian government announced the first case of COVID-19 (March 2020–February 2021) and compared to data from the year before COVID-19 as a control (March 2019–February 2020). In addition, the researchers analyzed the number of patients in the emergency room (ER), outpatient clinic, inpatient, and operating room.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="Pa6"><strong><span lang="EN-US">RESULTS: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">Overall, the number of orthopedic patients in the ER declined by 44% from 11.053 to 6.139 patients during the 1</span><sup><span lang="EN-US">st </span></sup><span lang="EN-US">year of the pandemic, with 28 patients reported as getting COVID-19. The outpatient clinic decreased by 34%, from 10.9780 to 72.200 patients, with two confirmed cases. Furthermore, the inpatient unit decreased from 15.365 to 9.526 patients, a 38% decrease, with the highest recorded case confirmed at 78 patients. The last, with 73 confirmed, showed a 27% reduction in OR from 12.954 to 9.431 patients.</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="Pa6"><strong><span lang="EN-US">CONCLUSION: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">In this study, analysis on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the field of orthopedics in seven tertiary referral hospitals in Indonesia shows a significant decrease almost in all units.</span></p> </div> <div><strong>LEVEL EVIDENCE: </strong>III, Cross-sectional multi-center study.</div>}, number={E}, journal={Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences}, author={Utomo, Pamudji and Haridhi, Abdurrahman Afa and Yudistira, Mochammadsyah Beizar}, year={2021}, month={Sep.}, pages={805–811} }