Hospital activities and CoViD-19: the case study of a Urology Department

Abstract

The CoViD-19 pandemic is an international public health emergency. The management of the hospitals found themselves facing an ever-increasing demand for beds, especially for intensive care, thus having to make critical decisions in a short time. A shared action was to block elective surgery deemed deferrable and to transfer resources to the management of the pandemic. The activity of the surgical departments has therefore undergone substantial alterations. In this study, logistic regression and statistical analysis was used to characterize this difference for the Urology Department in "San Giovanni di Dio and Ruggi d'Aragona" University Hospital of Salerno (Italy) by analyzing a set of variables and compared the data obtained in the year 2019, pre-pandemic, with that recorded the following year, in the height of the pandemic. The results show an increased number of emergency hospitalizations as well as scheduled hospitalizations with pre-admission.