Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on epidemiology, treatment, and outcome of major trauma in Japan in 2020: a retrospective observational nationwide registry-based study.

Masahiro Ojima Kenichiro Ishida Yusuke Katayama Tomoya Hirose Shunichiro Nakao Jotaro TachinoTomohiro NodaYutaka UmemuraTakeyuki KiguchiKosuke KiyoharaTasuku MatsuyamaTetsuhisa Kitamura Jun OdaMitsuo Ohnishi

Published in: Acute medicine & surgery (2023)

This study suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic might have altered the injuries of major trauma; however, medical services for major trauma were well supplied in Japan in 2020.

Keyphrases

healthcare
trauma patients
primary care
mental health
risk factors
smoking cessation