Dataset supporting Profile and Management of Foreign Body Ingestion Patients Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital

This dataset contains the demographic profiles, management, and outcomes of 156 patients diagnosed with upper digestive tract foreign bodies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The demographic profiles retrieved included the age, sex, address and comorbidities of the patient, date of admission, type of foreign body ingested, number of days from ingestion to consult, number of days from consultation to operation, number of days from operation to discharge, subjective and objective complaints as written in the progress notes, diet after the procedure and any complications noted. Medians and interquartile ranges were used to summarize demographics and frequencies and percentages were used to summarize the management, and clinical outcome data. Pearson correlation and Chi-square test were used to determine the differences between groups and the independent T-test was used to determine the differences in foreign body ingestion to consultation, consultation to operation, operation to discharge and consultation to discharge rates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to compare the demographic profiles, management, and outcomes of patients with foreign body ingestion before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.<b> </b>This study was a retrospective review of records of 156 patients diagnosed with upper digestive tract foreign bodies<b> </b>at a tertiary government training hospital. Of the one hundred fifty-six patients, 81 from the pre-pandemic period (2018-2020) and 75 during the pandemic period (2020-2022) were included in this study.