The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on elective urological procedures in Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the changes in elective private urological procedures in Australia during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Methods

Data were extracted from publicly available datasets from Medicare Benefits Schedule using item numbers assigned to each commonly performed urological intervention. These procedures were divided into three groups: Oncological therapeutic, diagnostic, and non-oncological therapeutic procedures. A smoothing model, based on the historic procedure numbers from 2017 to 2019, was used to forecast monthly number of procedures performed in each category between January 2020 and June 2020. These forecasted models were compared with reported figures.

Results

A total of 108 169 procedures were performed between January 2020 and June 20

SUBMITTER: John A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8694839 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature