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- Title
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on diagnosis and surgical management of common urological conditions: results from multi-institutional database analysis from the United States.
- Authors
Hout, Mohammad; Arbelaez, Maria Camila Suarez; Nackeeran, Sirpi; Blachman-Braun, Ruben; Shah, Khushi; Towe, Maxwell; Chanamolu, Dimple Kumar; Marcovich, Robert; Ramasamy, Ranjith; Shah, Hemendra N.
- Abstract
Objective: To determine real life impact during the first pandemic year on diagnosis and surgical management of common urological diseases and 90-day postoperative mortality following common urological surgeries. Methods: Cross-sectional study from 2016 to 2021. We used TriNetX to obtain the data. Patients with a diagnosis of six common non-oncologic and five oncologic urologic conditions were included. Twenty-four surgical interventions were also analyzed. The total number of diagnosis and surgical procedures were compared yearly from 2016 to 2021 and Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis. Additionally, monthly changes were evaluated during the first pandemic year and a z score period time was reported. The 90-day post-operative mortality rates during the first pandemic year were compared to the preceding year. Results: Overall, a decrease in diagnosis and surgeries were observed during the first pandemic year, with maximum drop in April 2020. Among non-oncological conditions, the decrease in diagnosis of enlarged prostate (5.3%), nephrolithiasis (9.4%), urinary incontinence (18.7%), and evaluation for male sterilization (14.8%) reached statistical significance (P < 0.05 in all). Prostate cancer was the only cancer whose diagnosis showed statistically significant decrease (6.2%, P < 0.05). The surgical case load for benign conditions showed higher reduction (13.1–25%) than for malignant conditions (5.9–16.3%). There was no change in 90-day post-operative mortality in any of the analyzed surgeries. Conclusions: Our study showed that although healthcare delivery decreased in the first pandemic year, causing a decline in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of several diseases, surgical interventions did not increase the risk of death.
- Subjects
SURGICAL diagnosis; COVID-19 pandemic; COVID-19 testing; UROLOGICAL surgery; SURGICAL therapeutics; URINARY organ diseases
- Publication
World Journal of Urology, 2022, Vol 40, Issue 11, p2717
- ISSN
0724-4983
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00345-022-04167-0