• Ozan Bozkurt, Volkan Sen, Bora Irer, Levent Sagnak, Bulent Onal, Yiloren Tanidir, Emre Karabay, Coskun Kaya, Erman Ceyhan, Aykut Baser, Mesut Berkan Duran, Evren Suer, Ilker Celen, Ismail Selvi, Oktay Ucer, Sedat Karakoc, Ege Sarikaya, Ender Ozden, Dogan Deger, Sedat Egriboyun, Sakir Ongun, Ozgur Gurboga, Mehmet Kazim Asutay, Ilke Onur Kazaz, Ismail Onder Yilmaz, Erdem Kisa, Engin Denizhan Demirkiran, Ozan Horsanali, Ilker Akarken, Onur Kizer, Huseyin Eren, Murat Ucar, Oguz Ozden Cebeci, Fuat Kizilay, Kaan Comez, Mehmet Necmettin Mercimek, Mehmet Serkan Ozkent, Volkan Izol, Ahmet Gudeloglu, Bilgin Ozturk, Kaan Turker Akbaba, Salih Polat, Adnan Gucuk, Avni Ziyan, Berin Selcuk, Firat Akdeniz, Hasan Turgut, Kubilay Sabuncu, Onur Kaygisiz, Veli Ersahin, KahramanHalil IbrahimHIDepartment of Urology, Letoon Hospital, Mugla, Turkey., Muhammet Guzelsoy, Omer Demir, and Study Group of the Society of Urological Surgery.
• Department of Urology, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey.
• Int. J. Clin. Pract. 2021 Apr 1; 75 (4): e13735.

ObjectiveTo present a nation-wide analysis of the workload of urology departments in Turkey week-by-week during Covid-19 pandemic.MethodologyThe centres participating in the study were divided into three groups as tertiary referral centres, state hospitals and private practice hospitals. The number of outpatients, inpatients, daily interventions and urological surgeries were recorded prospectively between 9-March-2020 and 31-May-2020. All these variables were recorded for the same time interval of 2019 as well. The weekly change of the workload of urology during pandemic period was evaluated, also the workload of urology and the distributions of certain urological surgeries were compared between the pandemic period and the same time interval of the year 2019.ResultsA total of 51 centres participated in the study. The number of outpatients, inpatients, urological surgeries and daily interventions were found to be dramatically decreased by the 3rd week of pandemics in state hospitals and tertiary referral centres; however, the daily urological practice were similar in private practice hospitals throughout the pandemic period. When the workload of urology in pandemic period and the same time interval of the year 2019 were compared, a huge decrease was observed in all variables during pandemic period. However, temporary measures like ureteral stenting, nephrostomy placement and percutaneous cystostomy have been found to increase during Covid-19 pandemic compared with normal life.ConclusionsCovid-19 pandemic significantly affected the routine daily urological practice likewise other subspecialties and priority was given to emergent and non-deferrable surgeries by urologists in concordance with published clinical guidelines.© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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