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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in nuclear medicine departments: preliminary
report of the first international survey
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Annunziata S
; Bauckneht M
; Albano D
; Argiroffi G
; Calabṛ D
; Abenavoli E
; Linguanti F
; Laudicella R
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging
2020[Aug]; 47
(9
): 2090-2099
PMID32462398
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PURPOSE: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic is challenging the
availability of hospital resources worldwide. The Young Group of the Italian
Association of Nuclear Medicine (AIMN) developed the first international survey
to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 in nuclear medicine (NM). The aim of this
study was to perform a preliminary report of the ongoing survey. METHODS: A
questionnaire of thirty questions was prepared for all NM professionals
addressing three main issues: (1) new scheduling praxes for NM diagnostic and
therapeutic procedures, (2) assistance of patients with diagnosed or suspected
COVID-19, and (3) prevention of COVID-19 spreading in the departments. An
invitation to the survey was sent to the corresponding authors of NM scientific
papers indexed in SCOPUS in 2019. Personal data were analysed per individual
responder. Organisation data were evaluated per single department. RESULTS:
Two-hundred and ninety-six individual responders from 220 departments were
evaluated. Most of the responders were from Europe (199/296, 67%). Approximately,
all departments already changed their scheduling praxes due to the pandemic
(213/220, 97%). In most departments, scheduled diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures were allowed but quantitatively reduced (112/220, 51%). A significant
reduction of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (more than 20%) affected
198/220 (90%) and 158/220 (72%) departments, respectively. Incidental COVID-19
signs in NM exams occurred in 106/220 departments (48%). Few departments were
closed or shifted to assist patients with COVID-19 (36/220, 16%). Most of the
responders thought that pandemic would not permanently change the work of NM
departments in the future (189/296, 64%). CONCLUSIONS: According to this
preliminary report of the first international survey, COVID-19 heavily impacted
NM departments and professionals. New praxes for NM procedures, assistance, and
prevention of COVID-19 have been applied during the pandemic.
|*Internationality
[MESH]
|*Nuclear Medicine
[MESH]
|*Pandemics/prevention & control
[MESH]
|*Surveys and Questionnaires
[MESH]
|COVID-19
[MESH]
|Coronavirus Infections/*epidemiology/prevention & control
[MESH]
|Hospital Departments/*statistics & numerical data
[MESH]