The economic and psychological impact of cancellations of elective spinal surgeries in the COVID-19 era

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61383082:_____/24:00001383 RIV/00216208:11110/24:10420689 RIV/00216208:11120/24:43920964

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02688697.2020.1868404" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/02688697.2020.1868404</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02688697.2020.1868404" target="_blank" >10.1080/02688697.2020.1868404</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The economic and psychological impact of cancellations of elective spinal surgeries in the COVID-19 era

Original language description

BACKGROUND: The adoption of health care restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of elective surgical care. However, the impact on patients is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the psychological and economic impact of the cancellation of scheduled spinal operations. METHODS: We identified 50 patients with cancelled surgeries between 16 March 2020 and 24 April 2020. Forty-nine (98%) participants were contacted, with whom the modified WES-Pi questionnaire was filled in during a telephone interview. RESULTS: Of the 49 respondents, 28 (57.2%) were aged &lt;65 years. The most often reported problem (85.7%) was an ongoing limitation in basic daily activities. At least moderate sadness was experienced by 65.3% and disappointment by 73.5% of the patients. More than 80% reported concerns about the continuation and 73.5% about the progression of their symptoms. Out of 27 employees (55.1%), 63% could not work due to severe pain or movement limitation (p &lt; .001). The inability to work was associated with anger (p = .037). The work-related impact of the cancellation was associated with stress (p &lt; .0001) and concerns about continuing the symptoms (p = .004). Two-third of patients would undergo immediate surgery despite the current epidemic situation. CONCLUSIONS: The cancellations of elective spinal surgeries have a serious psychological impact on patients. This together with potential economic consequences is especially evident in employees unable to work due to pain or movement disability. The information is beneficial for health management. Every effort should be made to resume planned surgical treatment if the epidemiological situation allows it.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30212 - Surgery

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

British Journal of Neurosurgery

ISSN

0268-8697

e-ISSN

1360-046X

Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

322-326

UT code for WoS article

000608502400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85099567343