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    "pk": 13788,
    "title": "Decrease in Trauma Admissions with COVID-19 Pandemic",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction: \nThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to social distancing and decreased travel in the United States. The impact of these interventions on trauma and emergency general surgery patient volume has not yet been described.\nMethods:\n We compared trauma admissions and emergency general surgery (EGS) cases between February 1–April 14 from 2017-2020 in five two-week time periods. Data were compared across time periods with Poisson regression analysis.\nResults: \nThere were significant decreases in overall trauma admissions (57.4% decrease, p<0.001); motor vehicle collisions (MVC) (80.5% decrease, p<0.001); and non-MVCs (45.1% decrease, p<0.001) from February–April 2020. We found no significant change in EGS cases (p = 0.70). Nor was there was a significant change in trauma cases in any other year 2017-2019.\nConclusion:\n The COVID-19 pandemic’s burden of disease correlated with a significant decrease in trauma admissions, with MVCs experiencing a larger decrease than non-MVCs.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Trauma, Emergency General Surgery, COVID-19"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Trauma",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05n535hg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Tovy",
            "middle_name": "H.",
            "last_name": "Kamine",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Department of Acute Care Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care, Portsmouth, New Hampshire",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Adam",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Rembisz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Department of Acute Care Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care, Portsmouth, New Hampshire",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Rebecca",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Barron",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Portsmouth, New Hamsphire",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Carey",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Baldwin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Massachusetts, Isenberg Shool of Management, Amherst, Massachusetts",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Mark",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kromer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Department of Acute Care Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care, Portsmouth, New Hampshire",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2020-04-19T05:53:29+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2020-04-19T05:53:29+05:30",
    "date_published": "2020-05-23T02:59:59+05:30",
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}