COVID-19 first lockdown and outpatient hospital setting : a single center, real life study focusing on pattern changes in patients' ethnicities and treated dermatoses
BACKGROUND: 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.
METHODS: 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).
RESULTS: During the Italian lockdown the dermatological department registered a great decrement (-83.5%, P<0.001) 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%).
CONCLUSIONS: 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.
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2022 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:157 |
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Italian journal of dermatology and venereology - 157(2022), 5 vom: 05. Okt., Seite 414-418 |
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Englisch |
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Gironi, Laura C [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 11.10.2022 Date Revised 11.10.2022 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.23736/S2784-8671.22.07357-1 |
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| 520 | |a METHODS: 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) | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: During the Italian lockdown the dermatological department registered a great decrement (-83.5%, P<0.001) 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%) | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSIONS: 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 | ||
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