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The Negative Impact of the New Coronavirus Pandemic on the Trend of Breast Biopsies and Their Direct Costs: Interrupted Time Series Analysis
OBJECTIVES: The overload of health services because of the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the population’s access to treatment and prevention of other diseases. This study aimed to identify whether there was a change in the trend of breast biopsies and their direct costs during the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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International Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9928534/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36796115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vhri.2023.01.004 |
Sumario: | OBJECTIVES: The overload of health services because of the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the population’s access to treatment and prevention of other diseases. This study aimed to identify whether there was a change in the trend of breast biopsies and their direct costs during the COVID-19 pandemic in a developing country’s public and universal healthcare system. METHODS: This was an ecological time series study of mammograms and breast biopsies in women aged 30 years or older from an open-access data set of the Public Health System of Brazil from 2017 to July 2021. RESULTS: In 2020, there was a reduction of −40.9% in mammograms and −7.9% in breast biopsies compared with the prepandemic period. From 2017 to 2020, there was an increase in the breast biopsies ratio per mammogram (1.37%-2.55%), the percentage of Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) IV and V mammograms (0.79%-1.14%), and the annual direct cost of breast biopsies (Brazilian Real 3 477 410.00 to Brazilian Real 7 334 910.00). In the time series, the negative impact of the pandemic was lower on BI-RADS IV to V mammograms than on BI-RADS 0 to III. There was an association between the trend of breast biopsies and BI-RADS IV to V mammography. CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic harmed the increasing trend of breast biopsies, their total direct costs, BI-RADS 0 to III and IV to V mammograms, observed in the prepandemic period. Furthermore, there was a tendency to screen women at a higher risk for breast cancer during the pandemic. |
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