Changing patterns of urologic emergency visits and admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective, multicenter, nationwide study

CONCLUSIONS: The observed declines in ED visits and admissions were apparent with the significant effect of national lockdowns. Our results indicate that some of the patients requiring urgent medical help did not appear at the ED or came later than they would have done before the pandemic, presenting with more severe complaints.PMID:34522255 | PMC:PMC8425232 | DOI:10.5114/aoms.2020.98364

Source: Archives of Medical Science - September 15, 2021 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Pawel Rajwa Mikolaj Przydacz Wojciech Krajewski Blazej Kuffel Piotr Zapala Aleksandra Krzywon Alexander J Cortez Bartosz Dybowski Remigiusz Stamirowski Marcin Jarzemski Rafal B Drobot Pawel Stelmach Krystyna Mlynarek Mateusz Marcinek Maciej Przudzik Wikto Source Type: research