ArticleClinical imaging2021
Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on radiology research: An Italian survey.
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- Impact of COVID-19 on Nuclear Medicine Departments in Africa and Latin America.Seminars in nuclear medicine · 2022Review
- Changes in the global impact of COVID-19 on nuclear medicine departments during 2020: an international follow-up survey.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2021Article
- Automated Quantitative Lung CT Improves Prognostication in Non-ICU COVID-19 Patients beyond Conventional Biomarkers of Disease.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the selection of chest imaging modalities and reporting systems: a survey of Italian radiologists.La Radiologia medica · 2021Article
- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on vascular registries and clinical trials.Seminars in vascular surgery · 2021Review
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Abstract
purposeTo understand how COVID-19 pandemic has changed radiology research in Italy.
methodsA questionnaire (n = 19 questions) was sent to all members of the Italian Society of Radiology two months after the first Italian national lockdown was lifted.
resultsA total of 327 Italian radiologists took part in the survey (mean age: 49 ± 12 years). After national lockdown, the working-flow came back to normal in the vast majority of cases (285/327, 87.2%). Participants reported that a total of 462 radiological trials were recruiting patients at their institutions prior to COVID-19 outbreak, of which 332 (71.9%) were stopped during the emergency. On the other hand, 252 radiological trials have been started during the pandemic, of which 156 were non-COVID-19 trials (61.9%) and 96 were focused on COVID-19 patients (38.2%). The majority of radiologists surveyed (61.5%) do not conduct research. Of the radiologists who carried on research activities, participants reported a significant increase of the number of hours per week spent for research purposes during national lockdown (mean 4.5 ± 8.9 h during lockdown vs. 3.3 ± 6.8 h before lockdown; p = .046), followed by a significant drop after the lockdown was lifted (3.2 ± 6.5 h per week, p = .035). During national lockdown, 15.6% of participants started new review articles and completed old papers, 14.1% completed old works, and 8.9% started new review articles. Ninety-six surveyed radiologists (29.3%) declared to have submitted at least one article during COVID-19 emergency.
conclusionThis study shows the need to support radiology research in challenging scenarios like COVID-19 emergency.
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