Impact of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic on Veterans Health Administration Sleep Services.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand the impact of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic on sleep services within the United States Department of Veterans Affairs using separate surveys from "pre-COVID" and pandemic periods.

Methods

Data from a pre-pandemic survey (September to November 2019) were combined with data from a pandemic-period survey (August to November 2020) to Veterans Affairs sleep medicine providers about their local sleep services within 140 Veterans Affairs facilities).

Results

A total of 67 (47.9%) facilities responded to the pandemic online survey. In-lab diagnostic and titration sleep studies were stopped at 91.1% of facilities during the pandemic; 76.5% of facilities resumed diagnostic studies and 60.8% resumed titration studies by the time of the second sur

SUBMITTER: Sico JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10158800 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature