Staff Absenteeism and Delivery of Healthcare Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Staff Absenteeism and Delivery of Healthcare Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Wiktor Dega Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Clinical Hospital in Poznań

Work attendance of more than 700 hospital workers was evaluated. The assessment of the number of medical services that were performed was based on monthly reports prepared for the national payer of health services.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: COVID-19 Pandemic
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: COVID-19 pandemic

Detailed Description

A retrospective analysis of above-mentioned data, covering the period January-April 2019 and January-April 2020, was carried out. The evaluation of the staff's absence included all workers employed under an employment contract: 713 workers in 2019 and 747 workers in 2020. The variable number of employees was a result of the employment dynamics in the subsequent 2 years, due to variable quantity of healthcare services that were contracted with the national payer and changes in the form of employment of some hospital workers.Three types of analyses were carried out: global analysis, analysis taking into account division into specific professions and the analysis of absence in different hospital organizational units/areas. The absences due to medical reasons, holidays or childcare were analyzed together. The analysis of performing the contracted tasks was shown in relative values ( %). The analysis included the structure of contracted services dividing them into: Orthopedics (alloplasty and others), rehabilitation (person-day), rheumatology (drug trials and others). Considering the rehabilitation unit, it was subdivided into inpatient and outpatient wards due to temporary closure of the outpatient ward.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 700

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Poland
  • Poznań, Poland, 61-545
    • Department of Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy Rehabilitation,

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

713 workers in 2019 and 747 workers in 2020.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

all workers employed under an employment contract Exclusion Criteria: not applicable

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Staff absenteeism; A retrospective analysis of above-mentioned data, covering the period January-April 2019 and January-April 2020, was carried out. The evaluation of the staff's absence included all workers employed under an employment contract: 713 workers in 2019 and 747 workers in 2020.	Other: COVID-19 pandemic; The aim of the study was to evaluate the staff absenteeism in the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic at Wiktor Dega Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Clinical Hospital in Poznań Poznań as well as to assess the level of performance of medical services that were assigned to the Hospital under contract with National Health Fund, the payer of public health services in Poland.
healthcare services; The variable number of employees was a result of the employment dynamics in the subsequent 2 years, due to variable quantity of healthcare services that were contracted with the national payer and changes in the form of employment of some hospital workers	Other: COVID-19 pandemic; The aim of the study was to evaluate the staff absenteeism in the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic at Wiktor Dega Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Clinical Hospital in Poznań Poznań as well as to assess the level of performance of medical services that were assigned to the Hospital under contract with National Health Fund, the payer of public health services in Poland.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of days an individual person was absent	Number of days an individual person was absent during period of March and April 2019 (61 days)	March and April 2019

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of days an individual person was absent	Number of days an individual person was absent during period of March and April 2020 (61 days)	March and April 2020

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Poznan University of Medical Sciences
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Ewa Chlebuś, MD, Department of Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy Rehabilitation

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 30, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): April 30, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 13, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 19, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): August 20, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 20, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 19, 2020
• Last Verified: August 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Staff absenteeism; healthcare services
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Lung Diseases; COVID-19
• Other Study ID Numbers: 3/2020/Reh

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No