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BECB 2022: Biomedical and Computational Biology pp 537–544Cite as

Impact of COVID-19 in a Surgery Department: Comparison Between Two Italian Hospitals

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The main phenomenon that impacted people’s lives was the COVID-19 pandemic, having strong consequences on national health systems. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, hospital admissions dropped precipitously in 2020. Our aim concerns the analysis about how the COVID-19 affects the activity of the Department of General Surgery, Day Surgery and Breast Unit 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). In the work data for the year 2019 (in the absence of pandemic) and in the year of pandemic 2020 were considered. This work used the logistic regression technique to study the following variables: age, gender, length of stay (LOS), relative weight of DRG, admission procedure, mode of discharge and the results about both hospitals were used to make a comparison.

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  1. Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Teresa Angela Trunfio

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

    Marta Rosaria Marino, Morena Anna Basso & Maria Triassi

  3. University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Cristiana Giglio

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

    Giovanni Rossi & Anna Borrelli

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

    Maria Triassi

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Trunfio, T.A. et al. (2023). Impact of COVID-19 in a Surgery Department: Comparison Between 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_52

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