The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on admission rates in Maternity Hospital.

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q2 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL

Open Medicine Pub Date : 2024-10-28 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1515/med-2024-1062

Jehad Abdullah Al-Harmi, Baydaa Alsannan, Fatemah Alhadhoud, Zahraa Akbar, Eman Alazmi, Khaled AlMuzayen, Eelaf Hussain, Mariam Aldarweesh, Basilio Pecorino, Antonio Simone Laganà, Antonio D'Amato, Vittorio Agrifoglio, Andrea Etrusco

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Abstract

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic had adverse health outcomes on individuals and communities. In this cross-sectional study we evaluated the admission rates in a tertiary-level hospital during the first wave of the pandemic (March 22, 2020 to August 31, 2020).

Methods: We compared the indications for admission during the first wave of the pandemic to a control period prior to the lockdown (November 9, 2019 to March 22, 2020).

Results: Most hospital admissions during the curfew period were obstetric emergencies (46.88%), which were significantly higher than the control group (38.19%) p ≤ 0.0001. Among the obstetric emergencies, cases in active labor (65.63%) were dominant. Significant rises in car deliveries (2.46%, p ≤ 0.0001) and admissions during the second stage of labor (6.43%, p ≤ 0.001) were noted. There was also an increased rate of admissions for early pregnancy complications, induction of labor, elective obstetric cases, and medical obstetric cases.

Conclusions: This study demonstrates that lockdown precautions implemented had a significant impact on the rate of admissions to Maternity Hospital. The data obtained may be a used to aid in designing robust policies for future pandemics to avoid adverse health outcomes.

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COVID-19 封锁对妇产医院入院率的影响。

目标：COVID-19 大流行对个人和社区的健康造成了不利影响。在这项横断面研究中，我们评估了一家三级医院在第一波大流行期间（2020 年 3 月 22 日至 2020 年 8 月 31 日）的入院率：我们将第一波大流行期间的入院指征与封锁前的对照期（2019 年 11 月 9 日至 2020 年 3 月 22 日）进行了比较：宵禁期间入院的大多数是产科急诊（46.88%），明显高于对照组（38.19%）P≤0.0001。在产科急诊中，以临产病例（65.63%）为主。发现汽车分娩（2.46%，p ≤ 0.0001）和第二产程入院（6.43%，p ≤ 0.001）的比例明显上升。早孕并发症、引产、选择性产科病例和内科产科病例的入院率也有所上升：本研究表明，实施封锁预防措施对妇产医院的入院率有显著影响。所获得的数据可用于帮助为未来的大流行病设计强有力的政策，以避免对健康造成不利影响。

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Open Medicine Medicine-General Medicine

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153

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