NCT05021575: COVID-COR-LT

Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on a Health Care System: Case Study of the CirculatORy System in LiThuania

Completed Last updated 31 August 2021

What this trial tests

trial testing Data collection on outpatient care in Cardiovascular Diseases in 839,678 participants. Completed in 31 December 2020.

Timeline

1 June 2020

Primary endpoint
31 December 2020

31 December 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Vilnius University
Status	Completed
Study type	OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment	839,678
Start date	1 June 2020
Primary completion	31 December 2020
Estimated completion	31 December 2020
Sites	3 locations across Lithuania

Drugs / interventions tested

• Data collection on outpatient care
• Data collection on hospitalisation
• Data collection on cardiovascular mortality
• Data collection of patients presenting to the tertiary care centre with acute coronary syndrome

Conditions studied

• Cardiovascular Diseases — all drugs for Cardiovascular Diseases →

Sponsor

Vilnius University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Cardiovascular Diseases. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) affected the health care systems all around the world. The collateral damage of the pandemic on the cardiovascular (CV) care and CV mortality has been noticed and reported early. In Lithuania, first quarantine measurements were introduced on 16th March and lifted on 16th June of 2020, limiting contact appointments to urgent care only. This led to a substantial proportion of routine cardiovascular appointments, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures being cancelled and greatly limited the availability of cardiovascular care. The prognostic impact of this has not been appropriately analysed. Also, comprehensive analyses of the changes in national CV services, including outpatient care and hospitalisations and CV mortality, during different periods of the pandemic (during first and second waves and in between) are scarce. The objectives of this population-based study were: (1) to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on CV care (2) to compare rates of outpatient care visits and hospitalisations of cardiovascular patients in different periods of 2019 and 2020 (3) to compare the rates of CV mortality in Lithuania in different periods of 2019 and 2020 (4) to investigate sex and age differences in CV care and CV mortality

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Collateral effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiology service provision and cardiovascular mortality in a population-based study: COVID-COR-LT.
   Čelutkienė J, Čerlinskaitė-Bajorė K, Bajoras V, Višinskienė R, et al · · 2022 · cited 4× · PMID 35552504 · DOI 10.1007/s00392-022-02033-y
2. SEX-SPECIFIC STUDY ON THE COLLATERAL EFFECT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC
   · 2022