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The impact of COVID-19 on the orthopaedic patient in Slovenia: Hip and knee replacement surgery, 90-Day mortality, outpatient visits and waiting times Cover

The impact of COVID-19 on the orthopaedic patient in Slovenia: Hip and knee replacement surgery, 90-Day mortality, outpatient visits and waiting times

Open Access
|Jun 2022

Figures & Tables

Table 1.

Demographics of patients in 2019 and 2020.

Type of operationGender20192020
%Age at operation (±SD)%Age at operation (±SD)
Primary THRMale161046%66.64 (±10.26)126945%66.14 (±10.87)
Female192054%69.18 (±10.24)152355%69.71 (±10.50)
Primary Total and Partial KRMale115736%67.80 (±8.54)92938%67.97 (±8.84)
Female203464%70.12 (±8.38)149462%70.19 (±8.67)
Revision HRMale16848%69.28 (±11.13)12339%69.84 (±11.99)
Female18452%73.99 (±9.23)19461%75.03 (±10.52)
Revision KRMale8439%68.13 (±9.74)6541%68.40 (±7.84)
Female12961%69.83 (±10.01)9459%71.53 (±8.80)
Sum of THR and KRMale301941%67.96 (±9.92)238642%68.09 (±9.89)
Female426759%70.78 (±9.47)330558%71.62 (±9.62)
Figure 1.

Comparison of surgery volumes of THR in 2019 and 2020 per month.

Figure 2.

Simple Error Bar comparing 95% CI of two medians of THR per month in 2019 and 2020.

Figure 3.

Comparison of surgery volumes of KR in 2019 and 2020 per month.

Figure 4.

Simple Error Bar comparing 95% CI of two medians of KR per month in 2019 and 2020.

Table 2.

Reasons for revision for hip and knee replacements.

p-valuep-value
2-stage revision20220.50322210.390
Aseptic loosening117990.57934320.298
Deep infection42480.22482500.160
Dislocation37210.07400NA
Broken Implant1290.67300NA
Malalignment00NA21210.313
Other41280.23229190.636
Pain10270.0012060.036
Periprosthetic fracture73630.7815100.056
Chi-square testx2df(7) p=0.025x2df(6) p=0.073

[i] x2=Chi-square test; df= degrees of freedom; NA= not applicable

Table 3.

90-day mortality after primary and revision HR and KR.

Type of operation20192020x2df(1)
N° of operationsN° of deaths in 90-days% of deathsN° of operationsN° of deaths in 90-days% of deathsp-value
Primary THR3691150.43436140.40.994
Primary Total and Partial KR319140.1242380.30.100
Revision HR352113.1317144.40.379
Revision KR21352.415921.30.444
x2df(3)p=0.408

[i] x2=Chi square test; df= degrees of freedom

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2022-0021 | Journal eISSN: 1854-2476 | Journal ISSN: 0351-0026
Language: English, German, Slovenian
Page range: 155 - 162
Submitted on: Aug 2, 2021
Accepted on: May 16, 2022
Published on: Jun 28, 2022
Published by: National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2022 Vesna Levašič, Denia Savarin, Simon Kovač, published by National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
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