Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trends in Cardiothoracic Imaging

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trends in Cardiothoracic Imaging

Introduction. Here, we evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on utilization of cardiothoracic imaging studies. Methods. We queried our radiology record system to retrospectively identify numbers of specific key cardiothoracic imaging studies for five years prior and during the COVID-19 pandem...

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Veröffentlicht in:Radiology research and practice 2022-06, Vol.2022, p.1-8
Hauptverfasser: Capaccione, Kathleen M., Huang, Sophia, Leb, Jay S., D’souza, Belinda, Goldstein, Jonathan, Salvatore, Mary M.
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aortic dissection
Cardiovascular disease
Comparative analysis
Computed tomography
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
CT imaging
Diagnostic imaging
Epidemics
Heart
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medical imaging
Normal distribution
Pandemics
Patients
Public health
Pulmonary embolisms
Radiographs
Radiography
Radiology
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Statistical analysis
Thorax
Tomography
Trends
Utilization
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction. Here, we evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on utilization of cardiothoracic imaging studies. Methods. We queried our radiology record system to retrospectively identify numbers of specific key cardiothoracic imaging studies for five years prior and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical analysis was performed to evaluate changes in the number of exams in 2020 and 2021 compared to 2019. Results. Five-year retrospective analysis demonstrated progressive increases in nearly all cross-sectional studies. In 2020, daily chest radiograph utilization decreased with an overall number of daily radiographs of 406 (SD = 73.1) compared to 480 per day in 2019 (SD = 82.6) (p 
ISSN:2090-1941
2090-195X
DOI:10.1155/2022/7923228