Andrew Hutchings, Ramani Moonesinghe, Silvia Moler Zapata, David Cromwell, Geoff Bellingan, Ravinder Vohra, Susan Moug, Neil Smart, Robert Hinchliffe, Richard Grieve
BACKGROUND: This study assessed the impact of the first COVID-19 wave in England on outcomes for acute appendicitis, gallstone disease, intestinal obstruction, diverticular disease, and abdominal wall hernia. METHODS: Emergency surgical admissions for patients aged 18 years and older to 124 NHS Trust hospitals between January and June in 2019 and 2020 were extracted from Hospital Episode Statistics. The risk of 90-day mortality after admission during weeks 11-19 in 2020 (national lockdown) and 2019 (pre-COVID-19) was estimated using multilevel logistic regression with case-mix adjustment...
July 27, 2022: British Journal of Surgery