ArticleEndoscopy2021
Improvement in appropriateness and diagnostic yield of fast-track endoscopy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Italy.
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- Effect of COVID-19 on gastrointestinal endoscopy practice: a systematic review.Annals of medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Post-Pandemic Burden of COVID-19-Related Restrictions in the Management of Digestive Tract Cancers: A Single Center Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Colorectal Cancer Fast Tracks: Cancer Yield and the Predictive Value of Entry Criteria.Cancers · 2023Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Anesthesiologist Assistance for Endoscopic Procedures.Clinical endoscopy · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundDuring the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy, only fast-track endoscopic procedures have been performed; nevertheless, a significant drop in their number has been reported. We evaluated whether the pandemic has impacted the appropriateness and diagnostic yield of fast-track endoscopic procedures compared with those performed in 2019.
methodsThis retrospective study involved endoscopy services in Northern Italy. We compared data regarding endoscopic procedures performed in March and April 2020 with those performed during the same period in 2019.
resultsIn 2020, there was a 53.6 % reduction in the number of fast-track endoscopic procedures compared with 2019. Patients undergoing endoscopy in 2020 were younger than in 2019. Both appropriate referral and diagnostic yield increased in 2020 for both upper and lower endoscopy. A higher rate of cancer was diagnosed in 2020 by upper endoscopy (3.6 % vs. 6.6 %;
conclusionsThe high level of inappropriate endoscopy referrals registered in 2019 significantly improved during the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020, with an increase in the diagnostic yield.
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