Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on diagnostic pathology in the Netherlands
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has a huge impact on healthcare provided. The nationwide pathology registry of the Netherlands, PALGA, offers an outstanding opportunity to measure this impact for diseases in which pathology examinations are involved. METHODS: Pathology specimen numbers in 2020 were compared with specimen numbers in 2019 for 5 periods of 4 weeks, representing two lockdowns and the periods in between, taking into account localization, procedure and benign versus malignant diagnosis. RESULTS: The largest decrease was seen during the first lockdown (spring 2020), when numbers of... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
| Reihe/Periodikum: | van Velthuysen , M L F , van Eeden , S , le Cessie , S , de Boer , M , van Boven , H , Koomen , B M , Roozekrans , F , Bart , J , Timens , W & Voorham , Q J M 2022 , ' Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on diagnostic pathology in the Netherlands ' , BMC Health Services Research , vol. 22 , no. 1 , 166 , pp. 166 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07546-w |
| Schlagwörter: | COVID-19 / Communicable Disease Control / Humans / Netherlands/epidemiology / Pandemics / Quality of Life / SARS-CoV-2 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26826507 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
| Powered By: | BASE |
| Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/cb18f909-d502-4ba4-af31-9bd33e681b44 |
