Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Functional Urology Practice: A Nationwide Survey From Turkey
Yıl: 2022 Cilt: 37 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 71 - 78 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.4274/MMJ.galenos.2022.97450 İndeks Tarihi: 23-06-2022
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Functional Urology Practice: A Nationwide Survey From Turkey
Öz: Objective: Routine urology practice has changed with the coronavirus
disease-2019 pandemic. We aim to determine the urologists’ functional
urology practice during the pandemic by an online questionnaire.
Methods: An online questionnaire was conducted to assess the functional
urology practice of Turkish urologists’ during the pandemic. The workplace,
positioning as a pandemic hospital, involvement in pandemic clinics, and
the relevance to functional urology were questioned. We also inquired
about outpatient services, diagnostic tests, and elective surgeries during
the pandemic compared with their routine practice.
Results: One hundred and fifty-two participants completed the
questionnaire. Of these, 32.2% replied that more than half of their daily
practice was related to diagnosing and treating incontinence, prolapse,
and neurourology. According to 123 participants (80.9%), there was a
decrease in outpatient clinics. Diagnostic tests were also reduced, such
as uroflowmetry (68.4%) and urodynamics (81.3%). The majority of
respondents declared a decrease in elective surgeries as Botox injection
(92.1%), surgery for urinary incontinence (93.4%), and surgery for prolapse
(85%). Nearly one-quarter of respondents’ (28.9%) stated that their
diagnostic methods for neurourology patients did not differ.
Conclusions: One of the most affected areas in urology during a pandemic
is functional urology. Although diagnostic tests and surgery for functional
urology are classified as “optional,” the quality of life of patients will be
affected by the delayed intervention.
Anahtar Kelime: COVID-19 Pandemisinin Fonksiyonel Üroloji Uygulamasına Etkisi: Türkiye Çapında Bir Araştırma
Öz: Amaç: Koronavirüs hastalığı-2019 pandemisi ile rutin üroloji pratiği
değişmiştir. Bu çalışmada pandemi sırasında ürologların fonksiyonel
üroloji uygulamalarını çevrimiçi bir anket kullanarak belirlemek
amaçlanmıştır.
Yöntemler: Türk ürologlarının pandemi sırasında fonksiyonel üroloji
pratiğini değerlendirmek için çevrimiçi bir anket uygulandı. Bu ankette,
katılımcıların görev yeri, pandemi merkezi olarak konumlandırılması,
pandemi kliniklerinde görev alma ve fonksiyonel ürolojiye ilgi hakkında
sorular soruldu. Ayrıca pandemi sırasında poliklinik hizmetleri, tanı
testleri ve elektif ameliyatlar, pandemi öncesi günlük uygulamalarıyla
karşılaştırarak sorgulandı.
Bulgular: Toplam 152 katılımcı anketi tamamladı. Katılımcıların %32,2’si
günlük uygulamalarının yüzde ellisinden fazlasının inkontinans,
prolapsus ve nöroüroloji tanı ve tedavisi ile ilgili olduğunu belirtti.
Yüz yirmi üç katılımcıya (%80,9) göre poliklinik sayısında azalma oldu.
Üroflovmetri (%68,4) ve ürodinami (%81,3) gibi tanı testleri de azaldı.
Ankete katılanların çoğunluğu, botoks enjeksiyonu (%92,1), üriner
inkontinans cerrahisi (%93,4) ve prolapsus cerrahisi (%85) gibi elektif
ameliyatlarda azalma olduğunu bildirdi. Ankete katılanların yaklaşık
dörtte biri (%28,9) nöroüroloji hastaları için tanı yöntemlerinin farklılık
göstermediğini belirtti.
Sonuçlar: Pandemi sırasında ürolojide en çok etkilenen alanlardan
biri fonksiyonel ürolojidir. Fonksiyonel ürolojiye yönelik testler ve
ameliyatlar “opsiyonel” olarak sınıflandırılsa da hastaların yaşam
kalitesi geciken müdahalelerden etkilenecektir
Anahtar Kelime: Belge Türü: Makale Makale Türü: Araştırma Makalesi Erişim Türü: Erişime Açık
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