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

University of Cagliari

Status

Completed

Conditions

Thyroid Disease

Treatments

Procedure: Thyroidectomy

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04635813

THYCOVIT

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment

3,800 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

patients that had undergone thyroidectomy during COVID-19 pandemic (from the 9th March to the 31st August 2020), defined as case group, or during the same period of the previous year (from the 9th Match to the 31st August 2019), defined as control group.

Exclusion criteria