TY - JOUR
AU - Richardson, George E.
AU - Islim, Abdurrahman I.
AU - Albanese, Erminia
AU - Ahmed, Ahmed Hassan
AU - Aly, Ahmed
AU - Ammar, Amr
AU - Amoo, Michael
AU - Bhatt, Harsh
AU - Bodkin, Peter
AU - Coulter, Ian
AU - Corr, Paula
AU - Elmaadawi, Ibrahim
AU - Elserius, Anne
AU - Fountain, Daniel M.
AU - George, K. Joshi
AU - Gillespie, Conor S.
AU - Goel, Aimee
AU - Grundy, Paul L.
AU - Gurusinghe, Nihal
AU - Hartley, Jessica
AU - Hasan, MD Tanvir
AU - Javadpour, Mohsen
AU - Kalra, Neeraj
AU - Mallucci, Conor
AU - Millward, Christopher P.
AU - Mohamed, Belal
AU - Mohamed, Saffwan
AU - Mustafa, Mohammad A.
AU - Nannapaneni, Ravindra
AU - Nolan, Deirdre
AU - Patel, Umang J.
AU - Piper, Rory J.
AU - Rajaraman, Chittoor
AU - Raza-Knight, Saba
AU - Rehman, Kafeel
AU - Rominiyi, Ola
AU - Sage, William
AU - Sharouf, Feras
AU - Sinha, Saurabh
AU - Sitaraman, Murugan
AU - Smith, Stuart J.
AU - Solth, Anna
AU - Stokes, Stuart
AU - Taweel, Basel A.
AU - Tyagi, Atul
AU - Zaben, Malik
AU - Jenkinson, Michael D.
AU - Prasad, Manjunath
PY - 2021
DA - September
TI - Neurosurgery activity levels in the United Kingdom and republic of Ireland during the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic–a retrospective cross-sectional cohort study
JO - British Journal of Neurosurgery
EP - 1003
VL - 38
IS - 4
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/02688697.2021.1968341
AB - The impact of Covid-19 on surgical patients worldwide has been substantial. In the United Kingdom (UK) and the Republic of Ireland (RoI), the first wave of the pandemic occurred in March 2020. The aims of this study were to: (1) evaluate the volume of neurosurgical operative activity levels, Covid-19 infection rate and mortality rate in April 2020 with a retrospective cross-sectional cohort study conducted across 16 UK and RoI neurosurgical centres, and (2) compare patient outcomes in a single institution in April–June 2020 with a comparative cohort in 2019. Across the UK and RoI, 818 patients were included. There were 594 emergency and 224 elective operations. The incidence rate of Covid-19 infection was 2.6% (21/818). The overall mortality rate in patients with a Covid-19 infection was 28.6% (6/21). In the single centre cohort analysis, an overall reduction in neurosurgical operative activity by 65% was observed between 2020 (n = 304) and 2019 (n = 868). The current and future impact on UK neurosurgical operative activity has implications for service delivery and neurosurgical training.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/0e105e43-5c77-4a5b-907d-d07b2b8581cb
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Hospital care
ER