Scoping review: hotspots for COVID-19 urological research: what is being published and from where?
World J Urol
; 39(9): 3151-3160, 2021 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
Contemporary, original research should be utilised to inform guidelines in urology relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. This comprehensive review aimed to identify all up-to-date original publications relating to urology and COVID-19, characterise where publications were from, and outline what topics were investigated.METHODS:
This review utilised a search strategy that assessed five electronic databases, additional grey literature, and global trial registries. All current published, in-press, and pre-print manuscripts were included. Eligible studies were required to be original research articles of any study design, reporting on COVID-19 or urology, in any of study population, intervention, comparison, or outcomes. Included studies were reported in a narrative synthesis format. Data were summarised according to primary reported outcome topic. A world heatmap was generated to represent where included studies originated from.RESULTS:
Of the 6617 search results, 48 studies met final inclusion criteria, including 8 pre-prints and 7 ongoing studies from online registries. These studies originated from ten countries according to first author affiliation. Most studies originated from China (n = 13), followed by Italy (n = 12) and USA (n = 11). Topics of the study included pathophysiological, administrative, and clinical fields translational (n = 14), COVID-19-related outcomes (n = 5), urology training (n = 4), telemedicine (n = 7), equipment and safety (n = 2), urology in general (n = 4), uro-oncology (n = 3), urolithiasis (n = 1), and kidney transplantation (n = 8).CONCLUSION:
This review has outlined available original research relevant to COVID-19 and urology from the international community. This summary may serve as a guide for future research priorities in this area.Palavras-chave
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Editoração
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Urologia
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Transplante de Rim
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Pesquisa Biomédica
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COVID-19
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Oncologia
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Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
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Systematic_reviews
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article