Mortality Trends In Pre COVID And Pandemic Era In A Tertiary Care Setting
Objective: The coronavirus pandemic has emphasized stay-at-home and social distancing policies. Since the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been a declining trend of hospital mortality indicating that the pandemic might keep patients from seeking emergency care in a hospital setting....
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Rawalpindi Medical University
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Objective: The coronavirus pandemic has emphasized stay-at-home and social distancing policies. Since the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been a declining trend of hospital mortality indicating that the pandemic might keep patients from seeking emergency care in a hospital setting. This study was carried out to determine the mortality trends pre-COVID and pandemic periods in a tertiary care hospital.
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Study design: Retrospective observational study
Place and Duration: 1st January 2019 to December 2021 at Federal Government Polyclinic (FGPC) Hospital Islamabad
It was a retrospective review done on death data of pre-COVID (January-December 2019) and pandemic(January 2020-December 2021) period. Data on death was retrieved from medical male and female wards, medical ICU and isolation ward. The mortality rate was measured for both pre-COVID and pandemic periods along with co-morbid for the pandemic period. Descriptive statistics were measured with the SPSS software version. 23. Association with age, gender and mortality was observed using a chi-square test taking p value ≤ 0.05 as significant.
Result: In this study of the 366 deaths, the average age of patients in the pre-COVID and pandemic era was57.40±17.910 and 64.31±16.065 respectively. The males and females were 50.9% and 49.1% in the pre-COVID period while 61.5% and 38.5% in the pandemic period. The frequency of deaths was 46.7% in the pre COVID and 53.3% in the pandemic period with a p-value <0.05. Patients with co-morbid died more in the pandemic era.
Conclusion: It was observed that hospital mortality trends were in decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in our setting which may be associated with lockdown, decreased access to the hospitals or fear of going to hospital.
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| spelling | doaj-art-f1b6015297a948d5badeff23711054b92025-02-06T08:40:33ZengRawalpindi Medical UniversityJournal of Rawalpindi Medical College1683-35621683-35702023-12-0127410.37939/jrmc.v27i4.2362Mortality Trends In Pre COVID And Pandemic Era In A Tertiary Care SettingHareema Saeed KhanSavida Ilyas Dar0Tayyaba FaisalFaridullah ShahRabbia AslamMaheen AsimPolyclininc Objective: The coronavirus pandemic has emphasized stay-at-home and social distancing policies. Since the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been a declining trend of hospital mortality indicating that the pandemic might keep patients from seeking emergency care in a hospital setting. This study was carried out to determine the mortality trends pre-COVID and pandemic periods in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: Study design: Retrospective observational study Place and Duration: 1st January 2019 to December 2021 at Federal Government Polyclinic (FGPC) Hospital Islamabad It was a retrospective review done on death data of pre-COVID (January-December 2019) and pandemic(January 2020-December 2021) period. Data on death was retrieved from medical male and female wards, medical ICU and isolation ward. The mortality rate was measured for both pre-COVID and pandemic periods along with co-morbid for the pandemic period. Descriptive statistics were measured with the SPSS software version. 23. Association with age, gender and mortality was observed using a chi-square test taking p value ≤ 0.05 as significant. Result: In this study of the 366 deaths, the average age of patients in the pre-COVID and pandemic era was57.40±17.910 and 64.31±16.065 respectively. The males and females were 50.9% and 49.1% in the pre-COVID period while 61.5% and 38.5% in the pandemic period. The frequency of deaths was 46.7% in the pre COVID and 53.3% in the pandemic period with a p-value <0.05. Patients with co-morbid died more in the pandemic era. Conclusion: It was observed that hospital mortality trends were in decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in our setting which may be associated with lockdown, decreased access to the hospitals or fear of going to hospital. https://www.journalrmc.com/index.php/JRMC/article/view/2362 |
| spellingShingle | Hareema Saeed Khan Savida Ilyas Dar Tayyaba Faisal Faridullah Shah Rabbia Aslam Maheen Asim Mortality Trends In Pre COVID And Pandemic Era In A Tertiary Care Setting Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College |
| title | Mortality Trends In Pre COVID And Pandemic Era In A Tertiary Care Setting |
| title_full | Mortality Trends In Pre COVID And Pandemic Era In A Tertiary Care Setting |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Mortality Trends In Pre COVID And Pandemic Era In A Tertiary Care Setting |
| title_short | Mortality Trends In Pre COVID And Pandemic Era In A Tertiary Care Setting |
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