How has COVID-19 Changed the Activities of Plastic Surgery? A Bicentric Study

ABSTRACT

The aim of the present work is to assess the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on the activity of the Department of Plastic Surgery in the University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio and Ruggi d'Aragona” of Salerno and the hospital "A.O.R.N. Antonio Cardarelli” of Naples (Italy). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has spread since December 2019 and is a respiratory infection that has changed the healthcare environment, in fact hospitals have had to reorganize departments to better manage resources and make processes efficient. In order to assess the effect that Covid-19 had on the department, data were collected for the year 2019 (in the absence of Covid-19) and in the year of the pandemic 2020. In the work was used the logistic regression technique to study the following variables age, gender, length of stay (LOS), relative weight of DRG, admission procedure, and the results of the two hospitals were used to make a comparison. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.