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Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatology Outpatient Department at a Tertiary Hospital in Eastern China: A Pre-Post Study

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has considerable impact on health care system in the world directly. Although the pandemic has been effectively controlled, people’s lifestyle, stress of job, economic status and health conditions have all changed. Therefore, it is unclear whether the COVID-19 pande...

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Autores principales: Yan, Ting, Shao, Chengming, Zhang, Minjie, Ge, Yongxing, Chen, Tingting, Chai, Dayang
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9680679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36426104
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S389496
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author Yan, Ting
Shao, Chengming
Zhang, Minjie
Ge, Yongxing
Chen, Tingting
Chai, Dayang
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Shao, Chengming
Zhang, Minjie
Ge, Yongxing
Chen, Tingting
Chai, Dayang
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has considerable impact on health care system in the world directly. Although the pandemic has been effectively controlled, people’s lifestyle, stress of job, economic status and health conditions have all changed. Therefore, it is unclear whether the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the distribution of diseases in dermatology outpatient department, especially in the post-pandemic era and how we should respond to these changes. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diagnosis of dermatology outpatient department in eastern China. METHODS: A pre-post study design was a retrospective study to assess the changes of diseases diagnoses from the outpatient department of Dermatology, Taicang first people’s hospital, Suzhou University, Suzhou, China in the 2021 (Post-COVID-19 pandemic) compared to the 2019 (Pre-COVID-19 pandemic). Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS 23.0 and Excel 2010. The data were analysed by methods independent t-test and Pearson’s chi-square test. A two-sided p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: A total of 67,994 patients in 2019 and 67,288 patients in 2021 were included in the study. During the pre-pandemic year, the most common diagnoses in the outpatient department were urticaria, fungal dermatitis, acne, herpes zoster, seborrheic dermatitis. Urticaria, acne, allergic dermatitis, fungal dermatitis, herpes zoster, were statistically more common in the post-pandemic period. Acne, animal-related diseases, allergic dermatitis, insect dermatitis, alopecia, and verruca vulgaris diagnoses were found to increase statistically during the post-pandemic period when compared with the pre-pandemic period. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic had a minimal effect on the average yearly dermatology outpatients department visits, but the distribution of dermatology diagnoses was affected. As a result, governments and health departments may introduce innovative ways and training of medical teams according to the impact of the pandemic to ensure normal medical care.
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spelling pubmed-96806792022-11-23 Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatology Outpatient Department at a Tertiary Hospital in Eastern China: A Pre-Post Study Yan, Ting Shao, Chengming Zhang, Minjie Ge, Yongxing Chen, Tingting Chai, Dayang Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol Original Research BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has considerable impact on health care system in the world directly. Although the pandemic has been effectively controlled, people’s lifestyle, stress of job, economic status and health conditions have all changed. Therefore, it is unclear whether the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the distribution of diseases in dermatology outpatient department, especially in the post-pandemic era and how we should respond to these changes. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diagnosis of dermatology outpatient department in eastern China. METHODS: A pre-post study design was a retrospective study to assess the changes of diseases diagnoses from the outpatient department of Dermatology, Taicang first people’s hospital, Suzhou University, Suzhou, China in the 2021 (Post-COVID-19 pandemic) compared to the 2019 (Pre-COVID-19 pandemic). Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS 23.0 and Excel 2010. The data were analysed by methods independent t-test and Pearson’s chi-square test. A two-sided p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: A total of 67,994 patients in 2019 and 67,288 patients in 2021 were included in the study. During the pre-pandemic year, the most common diagnoses in the outpatient department were urticaria, fungal dermatitis, acne, herpes zoster, seborrheic dermatitis. Urticaria, acne, allergic dermatitis, fungal dermatitis, herpes zoster, were statistically more common in the post-pandemic period. Acne, animal-related diseases, allergic dermatitis, insect dermatitis, alopecia, and verruca vulgaris diagnoses were found to increase statistically during the post-pandemic period when compared with the pre-pandemic period. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic had a minimal effect on the average yearly dermatology outpatients department visits, but the distribution of dermatology diagnoses was affected. As a result, governments and health departments may introduce innovative ways and training of medical teams according to the impact of the pandemic to ensure normal medical care. Dove 2022-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9680679/ /pubmed/36426104 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S389496 Text en © 2022 Yan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Zhang, Minjie
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Chai, Dayang
Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatology Outpatient Department at a Tertiary Hospital in Eastern China: A Pre-Post Study
title Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatology Outpatient Department at a Tertiary Hospital in Eastern China: A Pre-Post Study
title_full Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatology Outpatient Department at a Tertiary Hospital in Eastern China: A Pre-Post Study
title_fullStr Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatology Outpatient Department at a Tertiary Hospital in Eastern China: A Pre-Post Study
title_full_unstemmed Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatology Outpatient Department at a Tertiary Hospital in Eastern China: A Pre-Post Study
title_short Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatology Outpatient Department at a Tertiary Hospital in Eastern China: A Pre-Post Study
title_sort impacts of covid-19 pandemic on dermatology outpatient department at a tertiary hospital in eastern china: a pre-post study
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9680679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36426104
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S389496
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