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Flowchart of the study
| March 16–May 22 | |||
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| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
| Number of patients admitted to the orthopedics department | 19707 | 18224 | 5420 |
| Number of patients after excluding duplicated records | 12786 | 13086 | 2290 |
| Number of patients with an ICD code of fracture | 2906 | 3022 | 906 |
| Number of patients after excluding patients coded with the diagnosis of fracture accidentally and recurrent admission | 1717 | 1634 | 645 |
| Number of fractures | 1794 | 1747 | 670 |
