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Comparative assessment of patients' admission to urology departments during and before the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study

Published:2023-03-27 Issue:2 Volume:6 Page:410-415
ISSN:2636-8579
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Author:

KELEŞ Ahmet¹^ORCID,KARAKECİ Ahmet²^ORCID,OZAN Tunç²^ORCID,YUVANÇ Ercan³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. ISTANBUL MEDENIYET UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

2. FIRAT UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

3. Kirikkale University School of Medicine

Abstract

Aim: To determine the diseases that presented to the urology department during the COVID-19 pandemic and for hospital-based comparison with the diseases that presented in the same period of the previous year. Material and Method: In this retrospective follow-up study, patients who were admitted to the tertiary university hospital and secondary state hospital urology departments between April-July 2019 and April-July 2020 were included in the study. We searched the health administrative data using the International Classification of Diseases-10 codes. The number and variety of patients who were admitted to the urology departments in the same months of 2019 and 2020 were compared. Results: In both hospitals, the total number of admissions decreased during the pandemic in 2020 compared to the pre-pandemic year. Also, elective admissions decreased in 2020 compared to the pre-pandemic year (p

Publisher

Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine

Subject

General Medicine

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