Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transplantation by income level and cumulative COVID-19 incidence: a multinational survey study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the provisions of health services to necessary but deprioritised fields, such as transplantation. Many programmes had to ramp-down their activity, which may significantly affect transplant volumes. We aimed to pragmatically analyse measures of transplant activity and compare them by a country's income level and cumulative COVID-19 incidence (CCI).

Design, setting and participants

From June to September 2020, we surveyed transplant physicians identified as key informants in their programmes. Of the 1267 eligible physicians, 40.5% from 71 countries participated.

Outcome

Four pragmatic measures of transplant activity.

Results

Overall, 46.5% of the programmes from high-income countries anticipate being able to

SUBMITTER: Sandal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8756076 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature