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The Effect of CoViD-19 Pandemic on the Hospitalization of Two Department of Emergency Surgery in Two Italian Hospitals

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CoViD-19 pandemic caused a severe changing of healthcare facilities activities. Specifically, one of the most affected areas are the Department of Emergency Surgery that have been reorganized to face the emergency giving priority to urgent procedures at cost of those which could be deferred. This study evaluates the impact of the pandemic on the departments of two different Italian Hospitals: “San Giovanni di Dio and Ruggi d’Aragona” University Hospital in Salerno and the AORN “A. Cardarelli” of Napoli. Two different analyses (statistical and machine learning) have been provided for investigating patients in 2019, as an example of the normal activity before the pandemic, and those recorded in 2020, in which the pandemic reached its peak. The evaluation performed showed an increase in the urgent hospitalization and Diagnostic Related Group while transfers to Social Care Residences (RSA) decreased in both the Hospitals, even if the steepness of these changes are consistent with the starting values.

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  1. Department of Public Health, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Montella Emma, Marta Rosaria Marino, Miriam Rita Castorina, Sara Ranucci, Morena Anna Basso & Maria Triassi

  2. A.O.R.N. “A. Cardarelli”, Naples, Italy

    Massimo Majolo, Eliana Raiola, Giuseppe Russo & Giuseppe Longo

  3. “San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d’Aragona” University Hospital, Salerno, Italy

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  4. Interdepartmental Center for Research in Healthcare Management and Innovation in Healthcare (CIRMIS), University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

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Emma, M. et al. (2023). The Effect of CoViD-19 Pandemic on the Hospitalization of Two Department of Emergency Surgery in Two Italian Hospitals. In: Wen, S., Yang, C. (eds) Biomedical and Computational Biology. BECB 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25191-7_44

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