The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on neuroimaging volume in New York City.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

The COVID-19 pandemic acutely disrupted all facets of healthcare, with future implications that are expected to resonate for many years. We investigated the effect of the pandemic on neuroimaging volume, hypothesizing that all representative studies would experience a reduction in volume, with those typically performed in the inpatient setting (noncontrast enhanced CT head and CTA head/neck) taking longer to recover to pre-pandemic volumes compared to studies typically performed in the outpatient setting (MR brain with and without and MR lumbar spine without).

Materials and methods

We retrospectively queried our institution's radiology reporting system to collect weekly data for 1 year following the World Health Organization declaration of a pandemic (

SUBMITTER: Widemon RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9066275 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature