Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on equity of access to hip and knee replacements: a population-level study.
Seper EkhtiariDaniel PincusRuth CroxfordJodi M GatleyAmir KhoshbinAmit AtreyJ Michael PatersonBheeshma RaviPublished in: International orthopaedics (2023)
The most important finding of this population-level database study is that, compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a change in the profile of patients undergoing hip and knee replacements in Ontario, specifically across a range of indicators. Fewer marginalized patients are undergoing joint replacement surgery since the COVID-19 pandemic. Further monitoring of access to joint replacement surgery is required in order to ensure that surgery is provided to those who are most in need.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- patients undergoing
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- prognostic factors
- acute coronary syndrome
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- patient reported outcomes
- adverse drug
- drug induced