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Zeljkovic I, Ferri J, Mioc P, Brusich S, Matasic R, Jurisic Z, Szavits Nossan J, Maricic L, Cvitkusic Lukenda K, Radeljic V, Pavlovic N, Manola S. COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on the cardiac implantable electronic devices' implantation rates in Croatia. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0284699. [PMID: 37099567 PMCID: PMC10132659 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/27/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has influenced health-care organization worldwide, including management of non-communicable diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on cardiac implantable electronic devices' (CIEDs) implantation rates in Croatia. METHODS A retrospective, observational, national study was conducted. The data on CIEDs' implantation rates from 20 Croatian implantation centres, between January 2018 and June 2021, were extracted from the national Health Insurance Fund registry. Implantation rates before and after COVID-19 pandemic started, were compared. RESULTS The overall numbers of CIED implantations in Croatia during COVID-19 pandemic were not different in comparison to 2 years pre-COVID-19 time (2618 vs. 2807, p = .081). The pacemaker implantation rates decreased significantly (by 45%) during April (122 vs. 223, p < .001) and May 2020 (135 vs. 244, p = .001), as well as during November 2020 (177 vs. 264, p = .003), but significantly increased during summer months 2020 comparing to 2018 and 2019 (737 vs. 497, p<0.001). The ICD implantation rates decreased significantly by 59% in April 2020 (26 vs. 64, p = .048). CONCLUSION To the authors best knowledge this is a first study including complete national data on CIED implantation rates and COVID-19 pandemic impact. A significant reduction in number of both pacemaker and ICD implants during specific months of the COVID-19 pandemic was determined. However, afterwards compensation in implants resulted in similar total number when the complete year was evaluated.
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- Ivan Zeljkovic
- Department of Cardiology, Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Cardiology, Dubrovnik General Hospital, Dubrovnik, Croatia
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- Department of Cardiology, Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Cardiology, Rijeka University Hospital, Rijeka, Croatia
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- Department of Cardiology, Zagreb University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Cardiology, Split University Hospital, Split, Croatia
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- Department of Cardiology, Osijek University Hospital, Osijek, Croatia
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- Department of Cardiology, Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Cardiology, Dubrava University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Cardiology, Dubrava University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
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Smid DE, Franssen FME, Gonik M, Miravitlles M, Casanova C, Cosio BG, de Lucas-Ramos P, Marin JM, Martinez C, Mir I, Soriano JB, de Torres JP, Agusti A, Atalay NB, Billington J, Boutou AK, Brighenti-Zogg S, Chaplin E, Coster S, Dodd JW, Dürr S, Fernandez-Villar A, Groenen MTJ, Guimarães M, Hejduk K, Higgins V, Hopkinson NS, Horita N, Houben-Wilke S, Janssen DJA, Jehn M, Joerres R, Karch A, Kelly JL, Kim YI, Kimura H, Koblizek V, Kocks JH, Kon SSC, Kwon N, Ladeira I, Lee SD, Leuppi JD, Locantore N, Lopez-Campos JL, D-C Man W, Maricic L, Mendoza L, Miedinger D, Mihaltan F, Minami S, van der Molen T, Murrells TJ, Nakken N, Nishijima Y, Norman IJ, Novotna B, O'Donnell DE, Ogata Y, Pereira ED, Piercy J, Price D, Pothirat C, Raghavan N, Ringbaek T, Sajkov D, Sigari N, Singh S, Small M, da Silva GF, Tanner RJ, Tsiligianni IG, Tulek B, Tzanakis N, Vanfleteren LEGW, Watz H, Webb KA, Wouters EFM, Xie GG, Yoshikawa M, Spruit MA. Redefining Cut-Points for High Symptom Burden of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Classification in 18,577 Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2018; 18:1097.e11-1097.e24. [PMID: 29169740 DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be classified into groups A/C or B/D based on symptom intensity. Different threshold values for symptom questionnaires can result in misclassification and, in turn, different treatment recommendations. The primary aim was to find the best fitting cut-points for Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) symptom measures, with an modified Medical Research Council dyspnea grade of 2 or higher as point of reference. METHODS After a computerized search, data from 41 cohorts and whose authors agreed to provide data were pooled. COPD studies were eligible for analyses if they included, at least age, sex, postbronchodilator spirometry, modified Medical Research Council, and COPD Assessment Test (CAT) total scores. MAIN OUTCOMES Receiver operating characteristic curves and the Youden index were used to determine the best calibration threshold for CAT, COPD Clinical Questionnaire, and St. Georges Respiratory Questionnaire total scores. Following, GOLD A/B/C/D frequencies were calculated based on current cut-points and the newly derived cut-points. FINDINGS A total of 18,577 patients with COPD [72.0% male; mean age: 66.3 years (standard deviation 9.6)] were analyzed. Most patients had a moderate or severe degree of airflow limitation (GOLD spirometric grade 1, 10.9%; grade 2, 46.6%; grade 3, 32.4%; and grade 4, 10.3%). The best calibration threshold for CAT total score was 18 points, for COPD Clinical Questionnaire total score 1.9 points, and for St. Georges Respiratory Questionnaire total score 46.0 points. CONCLUSIONS The application of these new cut-points would reclassify about one-third of the patients with COPD and, thus, would impact on individual disease management. Further validation in prospective studies of these new values are needed.
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- Dionne E Smid
- Department of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Pneumology Department, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain
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- Pulmonary Department and Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS La Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Son Espases-IdISPa-CIBERES, Islas Baleares, Spain
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- Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Pulmonary Department, Madrid, Spain
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- Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, IISAragon, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Pneumology Service Instituto Nacional de Silicosis-Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
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- Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Pulmonary Department, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, IISP, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Pulmonary Department, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona and CIBERES, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey
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- Central Surgery, Surbiton Health Centre, Surbiton, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Intensive Care Unit, G Gennimats, General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece; Respiratory Failure Unit, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Center for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, NIHR Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, London, United Kingdom
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- Academic Respiratory Unit University of Bristol, North Bristol Lung Centre, Southmead Hospital Bristol, United Kingdom
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- University Clinic of Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
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- Servicio de Neumología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Vigo, IBIV, Complexo Hospitalario de Vigo, Vigo, Pontevedra, España
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- Pulmonology Department of Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, EPE, Portugal
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- Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pulmonology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Arbeitsbereich Ambulante Pneumologie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute and Output Clinic for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Biostatistics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Academic Unit of Sleep and Ventilation, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, NIHR Respiratory Disease Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton, United Kingdom; Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Hospital, Donggu, Gwangju, South Korea
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan
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- Department of Pneumology, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague and University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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- Department of Primary Care, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, GRIAC, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom; NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College, United Kingdom
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- Respiratory Franchise Medical, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), London, United Kingdom
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- Pulmonology Department of Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, EPE, Portugal
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Research Center for Chronic Obstructive Airway Diseases, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- University Clinic of Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
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- Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, IBiS, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain; CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, CIBERES, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College, United Kingdom
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- University Hospital Osijek; Department of Internal Medicine; Faculty of Medicine, University J.J Strossmayer Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
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- Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Región Metropolitana, Chile
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- University Clinic of Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Osaka Police Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Primary Care, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, GRIAC, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- King's College London, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Osaka Police Hospital, Osaka, Japan; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Rheumatic Diseases, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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- King's College London, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pneumology, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague and University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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- Department of Medicine, Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Osaka Police Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore; University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Australian Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Institute, Flinders Medical Center, Adelaide, Australia
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- Internal Medicine Department, Medical Faculty, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
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- Center for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, NIHR Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Adelphi Real World, Bollington, United Kingdom
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- NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Primary Care, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, GRIAC, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Agia Barbara Health Care Center, Heraklion Crete, Greece
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- Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey
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- Department of Thoracic Medicine, University Hospital of Heraklion, Medical School, University of Crete, Crete, Greece
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- Department of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Pulmonary Research Institute at Lung Clinic Grosshansdorf, German Center for Lung Research, Grosshansdorf, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Department of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan
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- Department of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands; REVAL, Rehabilitation Research Center, BIOMED, Biomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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