Kohei Fujita, Osamu Kanai, Takanori Ito, Zentaro Saito, Takuma Imakita, Issei Oi, Yuki Yamamoto, Masayuki Hashimoto, Satoru Sawai, Hiroaki Hata, Takao Odagaki, Tadashi Mio
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has restricted many medical practices. We aimed to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of bronchoscopies, outpatients, and hospital admissions. We retrospectively analyzed the number of outpatients, admissions, and bronchoscopies performed between March 2020 and May 2022. We defined "Peak month of the pandemic," "Wave of the pandemic," "Month in the wave," and "Period of a state of emergency" for each analysis. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, analysis of variance (ANOVA) in linear mixed models indicated significant effects of "month in each wave" on the number of bronchoscopies (P = ...
May 26, 2023: Medicine (Baltimore)