Evaluation of Public Interest in Mohs Surgery and Other Elective Surgical Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Dermatol Surg
; 47(7): 931-933, 2021 07 01.
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| ID: mdl-33927090
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The reallocation of health care resources to focus on the acute care needs of COVID-19 patients leads to a delay and deferral of outpatient surgical procedures such as Mohs surgery.OBJECTIVE:
Planning for the resumption of regular outpatient surgical care and preparing for future surges in COVID-19 cases requires identifying surrogate markers of health care demand. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
United States national and state-based Google search data for "Mohs surgery" and other common elective surgical and cosmetic procedures were evaluated. These were compared with national and state-wide COVID-19 case number and death data from the Johns Hopkins University. Pearson correlation coefficients were generated to assess the association between COVID-19 cases and deaths with Google search trends.RESULTS:
Search volume for "Mohs surgery" and other elective surgical and cosmetic procedures significantly decreased as the number of new deaths from COVID-19 increased. Statistically significant inverse correlation was noted between "Mohs surgery" search volume and new COVID-19 deaths on a national and state-based level.CONCLUSION:
Search metric analysis may be used as part of a big data model to help predict health care demand during the reopening phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Actitud Frente a la Salud
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Cirugía de Mohs
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Técnicas Cosméticas
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Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Electivos
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Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Ambulatorios
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Dermatol Surg
Asunto de la revista:
DERMATOLOGIA
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article