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cord-299102-4bwtg6xz	Novara, Giacomo	Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on urological practice in emergency departments in Italy	2020-05-30		.txt	text/plain	1592	74	42	Although several reports are available in the literature on recommendations for reorganization of the clinical and surgical activities [3-7], to our knowledge, no data is available on the effective impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the outcomes of other medical conditions. For this reason, we aimed to evaluate the urological component of emergency department activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing the requests for urgent urological consultations in a network of academic and nonacademic hospitals in Italy. To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urgent outpatient urological practice, we evaluated the urological consultations performed in emergency departments in a specific week, after the national lockdown of the country starting on 9 March 2020. In the present report evaluating urological consultations in emergency departments during one week of the COVID-19 pandemic, we found a substantial decrease in the number of urgent consultations.	./cache/cord-299102-4bwtg6xz.txt	./txt/cord-299102-4bwtg6xz.txt