Emergency department visits due to hand trauma and subsequent emergency hand surgery in three Finnish hospitals during the first and second waves of COVID-19 pandemic

• Ilari Kuitunen ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ilari.kuitunen@uef.fi

  Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, Mikkeli Central Hospital, Mikkeli, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8178-9610

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• Jarkko Jokihaara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Hand- and Microsurgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technologies, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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• Ville Ponkilainen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

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• Aleksi Reito,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

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• Juha Paloneva,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, Central Finland Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland

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• Ville M. Mattila,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Technologies, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

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• Antti P. Launonen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3125-0171

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