Objectives To understand how surgical services have been reorganised during and
following public health emergencies, particularly the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Depression is a common co-morbidity among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, which may
translate into difficulty performing activities of daily living. COVID-19 is an unprecedented …

Abstract Background The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic caused a massive disruption
in elective arthroplasty practice in the United States that to date has not been quantified. We …

Purpose Health care systems in most European countries were temporarily restructured to
provide as much capacity as possible for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID …

Background Many US health systems are grappling with how to safely resume elective
surgery amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We used online crowdsourcing to explore public …

Background and Objectives: Elective arthroplasty in Romania has been severely affected by
the COVID-19 pandemic, and its effects are not quantified so far. The aim of this paper is to …

Introduction As a result of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, elective
surgeries, including total joint arthroplasty (TJA), were suspended nationwide. Concurrent …

Background Recent studies have examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the
practice of total joint arthroplasty. A scoping review of the literature with compiled …

The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on
total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgical volume in Poland. A …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND CONTEXT The COVID-19 pandemic caused nationwide
suspensions of elective surgeries due to reallocation of resources to the care of COVID-19 …