To defer or not to defer? A German longitudinal multicentric assessment of clinical practice in urology during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nina Natascha HarkeJan P RadtkeBoris A HadaschikChristian BachFrank P BergerAndreas BlanaHendrik BorgmannFlorian A DistlerSebastian EdelingTobias EgnerChristina L EngelsMahmoud FarzatAlexander HaeseRainer HeinMarkus A KuczykAndreas ManseckRudolf MoritzMichael MuschInga PetersSasa PokupicBernardo RoccoAndreas SchneiderAndré SchumannChristian SchwentnerChiara M SighinolfiStephan BuseJens-Uwe StolzenburgMichael C TrußMichael WaldnerChristian WülfingVolker ZimmermannsJörn H WittChristian Wagner

Published in: PloS one (2020)

The German urological landscape has changed since the outbreak of COVID-19 with a significant shift of high priority surgeries but also continuation of elective surgical treatments. While screening and staff protection is employed heterogeneously, the number of infected German urologists stays low.

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