THE EFFECT OF PANDEMIC ON EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND POLYCLINIC APPLICATIONS IN THE CAPPADOCIA REGION
Journal Title: Kocatepe Medical Journal - Year 2022, Vol 23, Issue 2
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: With the spread of the new coranavirus disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus all over the world after the city of Wuhan in China, a pandemic process has begun. In this study, we aimed to compare the patient visits to emergency department and polyclinics in our hospital during the pandemic period with the pre-pandemic period. MATERIAL AND METHODS: System records of patients admitted to Nevşehir State Hospital Emergency Department and Polyclinics between January 2019 and August 2020 were evaluated retrospectively. RESULTS: The patients were divided into two groups as those who applied to the emergency department or those who applied to the polyclinics. The monthly and annual distribution of the number of patients admitted to the hospital, the number of hospitalized patients and the number of deaths were examined separately. It was found that the patient visits in both groups decreased during the pandemic process. The number of patients over the age of sixty-five was evaluated separately for both groups. The number of visits, the number of hospitalizations and the number of applications over the age of 65 were compared with the previous year, and a statistically significant difference was found as of March, when the pandemic process started (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The number of patient applications affected by the epidemic process; it is thought that it can be a guide in the reorganization of health systems in our country.
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Şule YAKAR, Necmi BAYKAN, Funda İPEKTEN
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.18229/kocatepetip.934478
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