The Lasting Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Surgical Key Indicator Cases for Otolaryngology Residency Education.
| Autor: | Krishnan, Pavan S., Daggumati, Srihari, Widmeyer, Jonathan, Quinn, Kevin J., Yu, Cheryl, Vahidi, Nima, Kamdar, Rushabh, Kandl, Christopher |
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PARANASAL sinus surgery
RHINOPLASTY EAR surgery ACADEMIC medical centers KEY performance indicators (Management) SURGICAL education TIME SURGICAL technology RETROSPECTIVE studies ACQUISITION of data MEDICAL records EMPLOYEES' workload CLINICAL medicine DESCRIPTIVE statistics COVID-19 pandemic MEDICAL specialties & specialists MEDICAL education CLINICAL education EDUCATIONAL outcomes |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; Aug2023, Vol. 132 Issue 8, p841-847, 7p |
| Abstrakt: | Objectives: Early on during the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other government as well as medical institutions recommended that surgeons postpone nonessential surgeries. The aim of our study is to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on otolaryngology surgical training by evaluating changes in surgical volumes through various time points relative to the height of the pandemic. Methods: We performed a retrospective review of all surgical cases performed by the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery department at a tertiary care academic center from 3 time periods: July 1st, 2018, to June 30th, 2019; July 1st, 2019, to June 30th, 2020; and July 1st, 2020, to June 30th, 2021. Results: From the 2018-19 period to the 2020-21 period, the total number of overall cases decreased by 9.9%, from 2386 to 2148 cases. During this same time duration, the number of key indicator cases decreased by 13.4%, from 1715 to 1486 cases. Relative to other cases, ethmoidectomy, rhinoplasty, and stapes/OCR cases decreased the most during the 2019-20 period by 41.9%, 41.8%, and 29.5%, respectively. From the 2018-19 period to the 2020-21 period, thyroid/parathyroid cases decreased the most by 35.4%. Only ethmoidectomy and oral cavity cases showed increases during this period at 9.7% and 24.4%, respectively. Conclusions: Although case volumes have stayed relatively constant, key indicator case volumes at the present tertiary care academic center have not yet fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts must be made to determine how this has impacted residency surgical education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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