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cord-278549-br9rr713	Madanelo, M.	The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the utilization of emergency urological services	2020-05-14		.txt	text/plain	1717	106	54	OBJECTIVES: To compare the number of patients attending the Urology ED of Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP), as well as their demographic characteristics, the reasons for admission, the clinical severity under the Manchester triage system (MTS), and the need for emergency surgery or hospitalization, during the pandemic and the equivalent period in 2019. The aim of this study was to compare the number of patients who attended the Urology emergency ward of a Portuguese Tertiary Hospital -Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP), as well as their demographic characteristics and the main causes of presentation to the ED, during the COVID-19 pandemic and the equivalent period at the previous year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, on the aforementioned dates, 46.4% fewer patients visited our urological emergency service compared with the homologous period of time one year ago (122 vs. However, significantly fewer female patients sought emergency urological services during the COVID-19 pandemic period (32.7% vs.	./cache/cord-278549-br9rr713.txt	./txt/cord-278549-br9rr713.txt