ArticleEgyptian journal of neurosurgery2022
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the neurosurgical practice in Egypt.
Article in Egyptian journal of neurosurgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on surgical neuro-oncology: A survey from the Italian society of neurosurgery (SINch).World neurosurgery: X · 2023Article
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Postoperative Neurosurgical Infections at a Reference Center in México.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A look at the global impact of COVID-19 pandemic on neurosurgical services and residency training.Scientific African · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown have significantly altered many aspects of the health care services. We investigated the impact of the restrictive measures during the pandemic on the volume and spectrum of operated neurosurgical cases at two University hospitals in Egypt. Results: The total number of surgeries dropped during the lockdown (second quarter of the year 2020) by 38%, compared with the total number of surgeries in the first quarter of the same year, with an increase in the proportion of urgent surgeries to the total number of surgeries from 46 to 69% ( Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered the nature and volume of neurosurgical practice. The overall number of surgeries showed a marked decline in the lockdown period; however, the numbers of urgent surgeries showed no significant difference under the lockdown.
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