Quantitative impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown on nuclear medicine in France: the CORALINE study

Purpose The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reshaped the usual risk: benefit equilibrium that became a trade-off between the infection exposure risk for the patient (and for staff) and the risk associated with delaying or cancelling the nuclear medicine examination. This study aimed at...

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Published in:European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2021-12, Vol.48 (13), p.4331-4338
Main Authors: Vigne, Jonathan, Peyronnet, Damien, Leenhardt, Julien, Dubegny, Constance, Ardisson, Valérie, Pariscoat, Guillaume, Bolot, Claire, Rauscher, Aurore, Hallouard, François, Clave-Darcissac, Caroline, Clotagatide, Anthony, Odouard, Emmanuel, Faivre-Chauvet, Alain, Diehl, Justine, Houdu, Benjamin, Agostini, Denis, Morello, Rémy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cancellation
Cardiology
Communicable Disease Control
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Data base management systems
France - epidemiology
Humans
Imaging
Information management
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Miscellanea
Nuclear Medicine
Oncology
Original
Original Article
Orthopedics
Pandemics
Patients
Public health
Radiology
Retrospective Studies
Risk
SARS-CoV-2
Shelter in place
Viral diseases
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Summary:Purpose The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reshaped the usual risk: benefit equilibrium that became a trade-off between the infection exposure risk for the patient (and for staff) and the risk associated with delaying or cancelling the nuclear medicine examination. This study aimed at quantifying the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in France on nuclear medicine examination volume together with volume of examination cancellation and non-attendance. Methods We retrospectively assessed the volume of planned examinations from 1 month before to 1 month after the first lockdown in French high-volume nuclear medicine departments (NMD) sharing the same information management system including both university hospitals, UH ( n  = 7), and cancer centres, CC ( n  = 2). Results The study enrolled 31,628 consecutive patients referred for a nuclear medicine examination performed or not (NMEP or NMEnP). The total volume of NMEP significantly dropped by 43.4% between the 4 weeks before and after the starting of the lockdown. The comparison of the percentage of NMEP and NMEnP between UH and CC is significantly different ( p  
ISSN:1619-7070
1619-7089
DOI:10.1007/s00259-021-05361-9