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NCT Number: NCT05572866

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgical Services in Singapore

This paper is intended to report our observational study in evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tan Tock Seng Hospital hepatopancreatobiliary unit's surgical workload from January to June across 2019 to 2022, corresponding to the pre-pandemic baseline to its peak and the gradual normalization of hospital services as Singapore entered the transition phase to COVID-19 resilience.

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Key information

Conditions

COVID-19 Coronaviridae Infections Coronavirus Infections Infections Lung Diseases Nidovirales Infections Pneumonia Pneumonia, Viral RNA Virus Infections Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiratory Tract Infections Surgery Virus Diseases

Age range

18 year–120 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Singapore, 308433

About this study

This paper is intended to report our observational study in evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tan Tock Seng Hospital hepatopancreatobiliary unit's surgical workload from January to June across 2019 to 2022, corresponding to the pre-pandemic baseline to its peak and the gradual normalization of hospital services as Singapore entered the transition phase to COVID-19 resilience.

A comparative audit of the unit's surgical workload for the months of January-June across 2019 to 2022, which corresponded to pre-COVID-19, the height of the pandemic, and a gradual normalization of surgical services. Operations performed by the unit were collected from the surgeons' electronic case logs. These operations were sorted based on the Singapore Ministry of Health's table of surgical procedures, which assigns charge codes to different procedures. The retrospective data across the 4 years were compared and analysed.

No patient contact or identifiers were retrieved, stored or disseminated and thus exempt from ethics board review.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • all patients who underwent gallbladder, hernia, liver or pancreas resection surgeries during the periods of January to June of 2019/2020/2021/2022.

Exclusion criteria

  • anyone who does not fall within the inclusion criteria

Treatment and study plan

COVID-19 pandemic

Other

To retrospectively review the surgical volume across 2019-2022 to see the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of surgeries done under general anaesthesia by the hepatopancreatobiliary unit

    Time frame: 2019-2022

    Operations performed by the unit will be collected from the surgeons' electronic case logs. These operations will be sorted based on the Singapore Ministry of Health's table of surgical procedures, which assigns charge codes to different procedures. The retrospective data across the 4 years will be compared and analysed.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Before and After- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgical Services in Singapore: Retrospective Quantitative Study 2019-2022

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2022
Study completion
2022
First posted
Oct 10, 2022
Registry last updated
Oct 10, 2022

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