id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-322414-dpx191xh Harke, Nina N. To defer or not to defer? A German longitudinal multicentric assessment of clinical practice in urology during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-09-15 .txt text/plain 3778 168 43 MATERIAL AND METHODS: An email was sent to 66 urological hospitals with focus on robotic surgery (RS) including a link to a questionnaire (e.g. bed/staff capacity, surgical caseload, protection measures during RS) that covered three time points: a representative baseline week prior to COVID-19, the week of March 16(th)-22(nd) and April 20(th)-26(th) 2020. The complete survey (S1 File) included detailed queries on numbers of available hospital beds and operating room (OR) capacity, staff members, surgical caseloads with subcategorization of surgeries at three different time points: week 1) baseline week that portrays the numbers of a regular/representative week before the outbreak of COVID-19, week 2) March 16 th to 22 nd 2020 which represent the first week after the lockdown in Germany (confirmed cases in Germany on March 16 th 2020: 6,012 with 13 deaths) and week 3) April 20 th to 26 th (confirmed cases in Germany on April 20 th 2020: 141,672; 4,404 deaths and approximately 91,500 recovered) [1] . ./cache/cord-322414-dpx191xh.txt ./txt/cord-322414-dpx191xh.txt