Spine Surgery and COVID-19 : The Influence of Practice Type on Preparedness, Response, and Economic Impact

STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional observational cohort study.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate preparation, response, and economic impact of COVID-19 on private, public, academic, and privademic spine surgeons.

METHODS: AO Spine COVID-19 and Spine Surgeon Global Impact Survey includes domains on surgeon demographics, location of practice, type of practice, COVID-19 perceptions, institutional preparedness and response, personal and practice impact, and future perceptions. The survey was distributed by AO Spine via email to members (n = 3805). Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to identify differences between practice settings.

RESULTS: A total of 902 surgeons completed the survey. In all, 45.4% of respondents worked in an academic setting, 22.9% in privademics, 16.1% in private practice, and 15.6% in public hospitals. Academic practice setting was independently associated with performing elective and emergent spine surgeries at the time of survey distribution. A majority of surgeons reported a >75% decrease in case volume. Private practice and privademic surgeons reported losing income at a higher rate compared with academic or public surgeons. Practice setting was associated with personal protective equipment availability and economic issues as a source of stress.

CONCLUSIONS: The current study indicates that practice setting affected both preparedness and response to COVID-19. Surgeons in private and privademic practices reported increased worry about the economic implications of the current crisis compared with surgeons in academic and public hospitals. COVID-19 decreased overall clinical productivity, revenue, and income. Government response to the current pandemic and preparation for future pandemics needs to be adaptable to surgeons in all practice settings.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Global spine journal - 12(2022), 2 vom: 31. März, Seite 249-262

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Weiner, Joseph A [VerfasserIn]
Swiatek, Peter R [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Daniel J [VerfasserIn]
Louie, Philip K [VerfasserIn]
Harada, Garrett K [VerfasserIn]
McCarthy, Michael H [VerfasserIn]
Germscheid, Niccole [VerfasserIn]
Cheung, Jason P Y [VerfasserIn]
Neva, Marko H [VerfasserIn]
El-Sharkawi, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]
Valacco, Marcelo [VerfasserIn]
Sciubba, Daniel M [VerfasserIn]
Chutkan, Norman B [VerfasserIn]
An, Howard S [VerfasserIn]
Samartzis, Dino [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

COVID-19
Coronavirus
Global
Impact
Journal Article
Private practice
Spine; surgeons

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 02.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/2192568220949183

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313374309