id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-312205-j8szwaqj Giuntoli, Michele Lessons learnt from COVID 19: An Italian multicentric epidemiological study of orthopaedic and trauma services 2020-05-28 .txt text/plain 3532 175 58 METHODS: We reported and compared traumatological and elective orthopaedic surgeries performed in three of the main hospital centres in Tuscany during COVID (March 2020) and pre-COVID (March 2019) era. The most important changes in our health system have been the delaying of elective surgeries and non-urgent ambulatory visits, the internal re-organization of hospital wards to better distribute the health workers and to create separate COVID areas and the implementations of ICUs. In this scenario, orthopaedic and traumatological activities have changed in our departments and a new resource targeted allocation has been necessary to better face the emergency and to give the best cares to the patients, as well reported in other studies [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] . Concerning orthopaedic-first aid visits data, we report the number of total visits, age and sex of patients, the kind (i.e domestic, sport, traffic, work, enclosed spaces, school and beach injuries) and the type (i.e. fractures, polytraumas, articular dislocations, sprains/contusions, others) of trauma. ./cache/cord-312205-j8szwaqj.txt ./txt/cord-312205-j8szwaqj.txt