Table 1.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Impact on Neurosurgical Practice Survey∗
| Question | Total Cases (n) |
|---|---|
| 1. In the past week, how many elective operations were cancelled in your practice for reasons related to COVID-19? (WITHOUT any scheduled replacement date) | 158 |
| How many cases were cancelled because of | |
| Patient following national guidelines for cancelling elective surgery | 113 |
| Patient concern about contracting COVID-19 during hospitalization | 23 |
| Lack of hospital beds | 18 |
| Travel restrictions (inability to travel to Johns Hopkins) | 5 |
| Surgeon quarantine | 2 |
| Patient testing positive for COVID-19 | 1 |
| 2. In the past week, how many elective operation cases were delayed in your practice for reasons related to COVID-19? (WITH a scheduled replacement date) | 43 |
| How many cases were delayed because of | |
| Patient following national guidelines for delaying elective surgery | 34 |
| Patient concern about contracting COVID-19 during hospitalization | 13 |
| Patient tested positive for COVID-19 | 0 |
| Travel restrictions (inability to travel to Johns Hopkins) | 0 |
| Surgeon quarantine | 0 |
| Lack of hospital beds | 0 |
| 3. In the past week, how many of your cases were negatively affected intraoperatively for reasons related to COVID-19? | 17 |
| How many of these cases were negatively affected because of | |
| Loss of co-surgeon | 0 |
| Loss of an anesthesiologist | 0 |
| Loss of resident/trainee | 1 |
| Loss of other intraoperative staff | 1 |
| Loss of vendor/medical device representative | 1 |
| 4. In the past week, how many scheduled clinic video visits in your practice were converted to telephone visits in real time? | 176 |
| How many clinic visits were converted to telephone visits because of | |
| Patient's inability to log into the video portal | 32 |
| Your inability to log into the video portal | 4 |
| Poor connection for the patient once you had logged into the video portal | 6 |
| Poor connection for you once you had logged into the video portal | 8 |
| 5. How many in-person clinical visits were cancelled for reasons related to COVID-19? | 147 |
| How many clinic patients' appointments were cancelled with | |
| No further follow-up scheduled | 66 |
| A change to a telephone call | 40 |
| A deferred visit until after the COVID-19 outbreak | 50 |
COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.
∗
Data gathered from March 15 to April 18, 2020.