Medical care services provision and stress experience in urologists during all waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Urologists' practices reported decreasing medical care provision and increasing stress experience in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, long-term effects of the pandemic are unknown.

Methods

Medical record data of n = 127 urologists were used to assess changes in healthcare provision, comparing the pandemic with the pre-pandemic period. An online survey among n = 101 urologists was conducted to assess the physicians' perceptions of the identified healthcare provision and organizational changes and experiences of anxiety, stress, and support needs during the pandemic waves. Urologists consultations, specialists' referrals, hospital admissions, documented cancer diagnoses, urologists' perceptions of causes for these changes and experienced stress, anxiet

SUBMITTER: Paffenholz P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10893761 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature