Warning: file_get_contents(https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=32406551
&cmd=llinks): Failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 215
Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 233.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534
Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 233.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534
Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 233.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534
Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 233.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534
Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 233.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534
Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 233.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534
Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 233.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534
Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 233.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534
Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 233.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534
Warning: imagejpeg(C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\phplern\32406551
.jpg): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 117 BJU+Int
2020 ; 126
(2
): 256-258
Nephropedia Template TP
gab.com Text
Twit Text FOAVip
Twit Text #
English Wikipedia
The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the utilisation of
emergency urological services
#MMPMID32406551
Madanelo M
; Ferreira C
; Nunes-Carneiro D
; Pinto A
; Rocha MA
; Correia J
; Teixeira B
; Mendes G
; Tavares C
; Mesquita S
; Fraga A
BJU Int
2020[Aug]; 126
(2
): 256-258
PMID32406551
show ga
OBJECTIVES: To compare the number of patients attending the Urology Emergency
Department (ED) of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP), as well
as their demographic characteristics, the reasons for admission, the clinical
severity under the Manchester triage system (MTS), and the need for emergency
surgery or hospitalisation, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic and the equivalent period in 2019. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Data were
collected from patients attending the Urology ED of the CHUP over 3 weeks, from
11 March to 1 April 2020, and from the same period in the previous year (from 11
March to 1 April 2019). RESULTS: During the pandemic, 46.4% fewer patients
visited our urological ED (122 vs 263). There was no significant difference in
the mean age or the number of old patients (aged ?65 years) between the two
periods. However, significantly fewer female patients sought emergency urological
services during the COVID-19 pandemic period (32.7% vs 14.8%, P < 0.05). No
significant differences were noted between different clinical severity groups
under the MTS. In 2019, significantly less patients required hospitalisation. The
most common reasons for admission, during both periods, were haematuria, renal
colic and urinary tract infections. The authors recognise that the study has
several limitations, namely, those inherent to its retrospective nature.
CONCLUSION: COVID-19 significantly influenced people's urological care-seeking
behaviour. Understanding the present situation is helpful for predicting future
urological needs. Based on the results of this study, we have reason to speculate
that people's requirements for urological services might grow explosively in the
post-COVID-19 period. There should be further studies about the real state of
long-term urological services and the consequences that this pandemic may have in
terms of morbimortality not directly related to the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2.