Impact of COVID-19 on Cardiovascular Testing in the United States Versus the Rest of the World: The INCAPS-COVID Study
Journal
JACC: Cardiovascular imaging
Date Issued
2021-06-10
Author(s)
Hirschfeld, Cole B
Shaw, Leslee J
Williams, Michelle C
Lahey, Ryan
Villines, Todd C
Dorbala, Sharmila
Choi, Andrew D
Shah, Nishant R
Bluemke, David A
Berman, Daniel S
Blankstein, Ron
Ferencik, Maros
Narula, Jagat
Winchester, David
Malkovskiy, Eli
Goebel, Benjamin
Randazzo, Michael J
Lopez-Mattei, Juan
Parwani, Purvi
Vitola, Joao V
Cerci, Rodrigo J
Better, Nathan
Raggi, Paolo
Lu, Bin
Sergienko, Vladimir
Sinitsyn, Valentin
Kudo, Takashi
Nørgaard, Bjarne Linde
Maurovich-Horvat, Pál
Cohen, Yosef A
Pascual, Thomas N B
Pynda, Yaroslav
Dondi, Maurizio
Paez, Diana
Einstein, Andrew J
DOI
10.1016/j.jcmg.2021.03.007
Abstract
This study sought to quantify and compare the decline in volumes of cardiovascular procedures between the United States and non-US institutions during the early phase of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.