A Bicentric Study to Investigate the Impact of COVID-19 on Urological Patients
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Emma Montella, Marta Rosaria Marino, Salvatore Bellopede, Sabrina Iodice, Massimo Majolo, Giuseppe Longo, Michele Sparano, Anna Borrelli, Maria TriassiAuthors Info & Claims
Emma Montella, Marta Rosaria Marino, Salvatore Bellopede, Sabrina Iodice, Massimo Majolo, Giuseppe Longo, Michele Sparano, Anna Borrelli, Maria TriassiAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 348 - 356
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In December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 broke out, which raised great attention worldwide. In fact, it was essential to reorganize the management of economic, infrastructural and medical resources to deal with the inadequate preparation of medical practitioners for this emergency. It was evident that the global health, medical and scientific communities were not adequately prepared for this emergency, so during the pandemic. In this paper, data extracted from hospital discharge records of the Department of Urology of the A.O.R.N “Cardarelli” in Naples, Italy, were used. This work is an extension of a previous work, whose goal concerned how admission procedure in the Urology department of the “San Giovanni di Dio and Ruggi d’Aragona” hospital has been affected by COVID-19 pandemic. In this work we compare the results obtained for the patients of the University Hospital “San Giovanni di Dio and Ruggi d’Aragona” of Salerno and the patients of the A.O.R.N. “Antonio Cardarelli” of Naples (Italy). Data have been extracted from both hospitals discharge records of the Departments of Urology. Experimental analysis performed comparing pre-pandemic data with those collected during the epidemic showed an in-crease in the number of emergency hospitalizations and a decrease in planned pre-admission hospitalizations.
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