Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on diagnostic pathology in the Netherlands
Abstract 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 numb... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMC Health Services Research, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2022) |
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Schlagwörter: | COVID-19 / Workload / Pathology diagnostics / Malignancy rate / Cytopathology / Public aspects of medicine / RA1-1270 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27581322 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07546-w |