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World J Radiol. Aug 28, 2022; 14(8): 293-310
Published online Aug 28, 2022. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v14.i8.293
Imaging volumes during COVID-19: A Victorian health service experience
Jo-Anne Pinson, My Linh Diep, Vinay Krishnan, Caroline Aird, Cassie Cooper, Christopher Leong, Jeff Chen, Nicholas Ardley, Eldho Paul, Mohamed Khaldoun Badawy
Jo-Anne Pinson, My Linh Diep, Vinay Krishnan, Caroline Aird, Cassie Cooper, Christopher Leong, Jeff Chen, Nicholas Ardley, Mohamed Khaldoun Badawy, Monash Health Imaging, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Jo-Anne Pinson, Department of Medical Imaging, Peninsula Health, Melbourne, Victoria 3099, Australia
Jo-Anne Pinson, Mohamed Khaldoun Badawy, Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, School of Allied Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
Eldho Paul, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
Author contributions: Pinson JA, Badawy MK, designed and coordinated the study; Pinson JA, Badawy MK, Diep ML, Krishnan V, Aird C, Cooper C, Leong C, Chen J, Paul E and Ardley N performed the data collection, analysed and interpreted the data; Pinson JA, Badawy MK, Diep ML, Krishnan V, Aird C, Cooper C, Leong C, Chen J, Paul E and Ardley N wrote the manuscript; all authors have read, edited and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Monash Health Human Research Ethics Committee Institutional Review Board [(Approval No. QA/69362/MonH-2020-235260(v1))].
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent. For full disclosure, the details of the study are published on the home page of Fukushima Medical University.
Conflict-of-interest statement: We have no financial relationships to disclose.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at mohamed.badawy@monashhealth.org.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Mohamed Khaldoun Badawy, BSc, MSc, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Senior Scientist, Monash Health Imaging, Monash Health, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia. mohamed.badawy@monashhealth.org
Received: March 16, 2022
Peer-review started: March 16, 2022
First decision: June 16, 2022
Revised: July 7, 2022
Accepted: July 20, 2022
Article in press: July 20, 2022
Published online: August 28, 2022
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Core Tip

Core Tip: Analysis of weekly imaging modality volumes provides an overview of changes in service demand over time. We describe the changes in imaging modality and mobile imaging volumes during Victoria’s first and second waves of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.