COVID-19 first lockdown and outpatient hospital setting: a single center, real life study focusing on pattern changes in patients' ethnicities and treated dermatoses
| Autor: | Laura C. GIRONI, Elia ESPOSTO, Roberto GIORGIONE, Elisa ZAVATTARO, Pamela FARINELLI, Mara GIORDANO, Simona MELLONE, Alessandra BUJA, Paolo D. PIGATTO, Giovanni DAMIANI, Paola SAVOIA |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Italian Journal of Dermatology and Venereology. 157 |
| ISSN: | 2784-8450 2784-8671 |
| Popis: | During the first Italian lockdown period, the imponent amount of hospital COVID-19 patients forced the healthcare system to re-organize visits but no information are available on outpatient ethnical patterns. Here we evaluated healthcare management changes on dermatological outpatient non-surgical settings visits during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.In this retrospective study we collected data of scheduled, performed and not-performed visits, together with patients' characteristics (i.e., age, gender) with a particular attention for ethnicities among the outpatients accessing during the first Italian lockdown (March 5-April 30, 2020). Then, we compared these data with the corresponding ones in 2019 (before COVID-19 pandemic).During the Italian lockdown the dermatological department registered a great decrement (-83.5%, P0.001) in visits compared to the corresponding time period in 2019. Performed and scheduled visits to non-oncological stable patients together with emergency accesses to dermatology decreased. Non-Italian patients decreased accesses, especially the South East Asians (-70.4%) and North Africans (-90.0%).Hospitals policy and mass media deeply condition the public opinion, and this aspect may explain a different access to the hospital among non-Italian patients. Telemedicine should be promoted especially among non-Italian communities in Italy to overgo patients' skepticism and incentivize prevention and early treatment in dermatological conditions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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