资源介绍
This article reports the results of a national survey, which had the purpose of understanding how COVID-19 pandemic has changed the scientific activity of Italian radiology researchers. A total of 327 Italian radiologists took part in the survey (mean age: 49±12 years). The majority of participants (245/327, 74.9%) was not working for or in agreement with a University and most of them were hospital staff radiologists (222/327, 67.9%). More than two-thirds of surveyed radiologists (231/327, 71%) was working in a public institution, which mostly was a general hospital (188/327, 57.5%); 86/327 (26.3%) participants declared to work in a university hospital. After national lockdown, the working-flow came back to normal in the vast majority of cases (285/327, 87.2%). Participants reported that a total of 462 radiological trials were recruiting patients at their institutions prior to COVID-19 outbreak, of which 332 (71.9%) were stopped during the emergency. On the other hand, 252 radiological trials have been started during the pandemic, of which 156 were non-COVID-19 trials (61.9%) and 96 were focused on COVID-19 patients (38.2%). Participants reported a significant increase of the number of hours per week spent for research purposes during national lockdown (mean 4.5±8.9 hours during lockdown vs. 3.3±6.8 hours before lockdown; p=.046), followed by a significant drop after lockdown (3.2±6.5 hours per week, p=.035). Notably, 60% of participants reported that they do not spend any time on research. During national lockdown, 15.6% of participants started new review articles and completed old papers, 14.1% completed old works, and 8.9% started new review articles. Ninety-six surveyed radiologists (29.3%) declared to have submitted at least one article during COVID-19 emergency. This study confirms the need to be prepared to future challenging scenarios like COVID-19 emergency in order to support radiology researchers, thereby allowing them to push forward their activity.
