NCT04635813

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Thyroid Surgery in Italy: Results From a Nation-wide Multicentric Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 3,800 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Cagliari · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Italy has been on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the need to focus resources to deal with the pandemic led to a disruption of routine surgical care, as well as activity for oncologic and chronic disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on surgical activity of the Italian Units of Endocrine Surgery belonging to the SIUEC (Italian Society of Endocrine Surgery), the most important national scientific society of endocrine surgery.The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on surgical activity of the Italian Units of Endocrine Surgery belonging to the SIUEC (Italian Society of Endocrine Surgery), the most important national scientific society of endocrine surgery.

Conditions

• Thyroid Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Thyroidectomy	Thyroidectomy

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-10
• Primary completion: 2020-09-30
• Completion: 2020-11-12
• First posted: 2020-11-19
• Last updated: 2020-11-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy