Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Shifts Inpatient Imaging Utilization.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on imaging utilization across practice settings. The purpose of this study was to quantify the change in the composition of inpatient imaging volumes for modality types and Current Procedural Terminology-coded groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

A retrospective study of inpatient imaging volumes in a large health care system was performed, analyzing weekly imaging volumes by modality types (radiography, CT, MRI, ultrasound, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine) in years 2020 and 2019. The data set was split to compare pre-COVID-19 (weeks 1-9) and post-COVID-19 (weeks 10-16) periods. Further subanalyses compared early post-COVID-19 (weeks 10-13) and late post-COVID-19 (weeks

SUBMITTER: Naidich JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7301132 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature