Changes in Fracture Epidemiology Due to COVID-19 Crisis; a Letter to Editor
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine,
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020),
7 January 2020
,
Page e63
https://doi.org/10.22037/aaem.v8i1.745
Abstract
Since December 2019, when the first case of COVID-19 was reported in China, the main strategy of health policy makers has been to quarantine and impose social restrictions, causing significant behavioral changes in people due to fear of infection (1, 2). Laws limiting traffic, reduced travel permits, paying attention to personal hygiene, and making efforts to clean up private and public environments are some of the changes that have been observed. We also noticed alterations in patients' admission to trauma centers.
In a retrospective cross-sectional study, demographic characteristics and type of fracture were analyzed in patients referring to the trauma center of Taleghani Hospital, Kermanshah, Iran, from 1st March to 15th April, in 3 consecutive years (2018 to 2020).
- COVID-19
- bone fracture
- epidemiology
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