1. Nation‐wide analysis of the impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on daily urology practice in Turkey
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Ismail Selvi, Muhammet Guzelsoy, Ozgur Gurboga, Volkan Sen, Hasan Turgut, Bilgin Ozturk, Ender Ozden, Oktay Üçer, Coskun Kaya, Evren Süer, Aykut Başer, Berin Selçuk, Murat Ucar, Halil Ibrahim Kahraman, Fuat Kizilay, Oguz Ozden Cebeci, Ilke Onur Kazaz, Ismail Onder Yilmaz, Omer Demir, Bulent Onal, Veli Ersahin, Sedat Karakoc, Adnan Gucuk, Avni Ziyan, Dogan Deger, Kubilay Sabuncu, Mesut Berkan Duran, Ozan Horsanali, Sedat Egriboyun, Mehmet Kazim Asutay, Ilker Celen, Salih Polat, Mehmet Serkan Ozkent, Onur Kizer, Ege Sarikaya, Kaan Akbaba, Erdem Kisa, Bora Irer, Ahmet Gudeloglu, Kaan Comez, Ilker Akarken, Ozan Bozkurt, Onur Kaygisiz, Huseyin Eren, Firat Akdeniz, Sakir Ongun, Emre Karabay, Volkan Izol, Mehmet Necmettin Mercimek, Erman Ceyhan, Levent Sagnak, Engin Denizhan Demirkiran, Yiloren Tanidir, BAİBÜ, Tıp Fakültesi, Cerrahi Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, Gücük, Adnan, [Belirlenecek], Bozkurt, Ozan, Sen, Volkan, Irer, Bora, Sagnak, Levent, Onal, Bulent, Tanidir, Yiloren, Karabay, Emre, Kaya, Coskun, Ceyhan, Erman, Baser, Aykut, Duran, Mesut Berkan, Suer, Evren, Celen, Ilker, Selvi, Ismail, Ucer, Oktay, Karakoc, Sedat, Sarikaya, Ege, Ozden, Ender, Deger, Dogan, Egriboyun, Sedat, Ongun, Sakir, Gurboga, Ozgur, Asutay, Mehmet Kazim, Kazaz, Ilke Onur, Yilmaz, Ismail Onder, Kisa, Erdem, Demirkiran, Engin Denizhan, Horsanali, Ozan, Akarken, Ilker, Kizer, Onur, Eren, Huseyin, Ucar, Murat, Cebeci, Oguz Ozden, Kizilay, Fuat, Comez, Kaan, Mercimek, Mehmet Necmettin, Ozkent, Mehmet Serkan, Izol, Volkan, Gudeloglu, Ahmet, Ozturk, Bilgin, Akbaba, Kaan Turker, Polat, Salih, Gucuk, Adnan, Ziyan, Avni, Selcuk, Berin, Akdeniz, Firat, Turgut, Hasan, Sabuncu, Kubilay, Kaygisiz, Onur, Ersahin, Veli, Kahraman, Halil Ibrahim, Guzelsoy, Muhammet, Demir, Omer, ALKÜ, 0-belirlenecek, Ege Üniversitesi, MÜ,Tıp Fakültesi, Cerrahi Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, Akarken, İlker, Tıp Fakültesi, and İÜC, Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Cerrahi Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü
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Ureteral Stenting ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Turkey ,Referral ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Urology ,Covid-19 Pandemic ,Concordance ,coronavirus ,Psychological intervention ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Urology Practice ,General & Internal Medicine ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Humans ,Pharmacology & Pharmacy ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Pandemics ,Covid‐19 ,Original Paper ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,pandemic ,[No Keywords] ,COVID-19 ,Workload ,General Medicine ,Original Papers ,Percutaneous cystostomy ,urology practice ,Private practice ,Covid-19 ,business - Abstract
Ongün, Şakir (Balikesir Author), Objective To present a nation-wide analysis of the workload of urology departments in Turkey week-by-week during Covid-19 pandemic. Methodology The centres participating in the study were divided into three groups as tertiary referral centres, state hospitals and private practice hospitals. The number of outpatients, inpatients, daily interventions and urological surgeries were recorded prospectively between 9-March-2020 and 31-May-2020. All these variables were recorded for the same time interval of 2019 as well. The weekly change of the workload of urology during pandemic period was evaluated, also the workload of urology and the distributions of certain urological surgeries were compared between the pandemic period and the same time interval of the year 2019. Results A total of 51 centres participated in the study. The number of outpatients, inpatients, urological surgeries and daily interventions were found to be dramatically decreased by the 3rd week of pandemics in state hospitals and tertiary referral centres; however, the daily urological practice were similar in private practice hospitals throughout the pandemic period. When the workload of urology in pandemic period and the same time interval of the year 2019 were compared, a huge decrease was observed in all variables during pandemic period. However, temporary measures like ureteral stenting, nephrostomy placement and percutaneous cystostomy have been found to increase during Covid-19 pandemic compared with normal life. Conclusions Covid-19 pandemic significantly affected the routine daily urological practice likewise other subspecialties and priority was given to emergent and non-deferrable surgeries by urologists in concordance with published clinical guidelines.
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- 2020
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