Clinical trial NCT04623346: Orthopaedic Conservative Treatment in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic
Official title: Orthopaedic Conservative Treatment in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Ankle Fractures
Proximal Humeral Fracture
Wrist Fracture
Lead sponsor: Prof. Dr. Cemil Tascıoglu Education and Research Hospital Organization
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-11-10
Enrollment: 262
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 85
Standard ages: OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients who admitted to emergency orthopedics department between March 11, 2020 and August 11, 2020

Brief summary: This is a one centered retrospective study. Tendency for surgical interventions in the pre-pandemic period was reduced to protect surgical team and patients. The investigators aimed to find out the answer to the following question: will conservative treatment be the shining star in the post pandemic period?

Detailed description: The researchers compared the treatments performed for fractures during the Covid 19 pandemic period with the treatments performed in the prepandemic period. For this purpose, they tried to measure the effectiveness of the treatments according to clinical scoring by forming 2 groups.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients with extraarticular distal radius fracture, proximal humerus fracture and Weber type B ankle fracture were treated conservatively during March 11, 2020 and 11 August, 2020

Exclusion Criteria:

* Surgically treated patients during March 11, 2020 and 11 August, 2020

Primary outcomes:
measure: Comparison of the two groups in terms of bony union
timeFrame: 12 week
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: SBU Prof. Cemil Tascioglu City Hospital
Study officials:
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