Willingness of patients to attend abdominal aortic aneurysm surveillance: The implications of COVID‐19 on restarting the National Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme

• Published in: British Journal of Surgery Vol. 107; no. 13; pp. e646 - e647
• Main Authors: Selway, WG, Stenson, KM, Holt, PJ, Loftus, IM
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.12.2020; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Aged; Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal - diagnosis; Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal - diagnostic imaging; Aortic aneurysms; Aortic Rupture - prevention & control; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control; COVID-19; Humans; Infection Control - methods; Male; Mass Screening - methods; Mass Screening - statistics & numerical data; Monitoring, Physiologic - methods; Monitoring, Physiologic - statistics & numerical data; Pandemics - prevention & control; Pandemics - statistics & numerical data; Patient Compliance - statistics & numerical data; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control; Research Letter; Surveys and Questionnaires; United Kingdom; United Kingdom
• ISSN: 0007-1323; 1365-2168
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.12059

Editor Clinical activity within the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) and other healthcare systems underwent a significant transformation to deal with the COVID‐19 pandemic. Overall, the responses generated from this survey do raise questions with respect to restarting aneurysm surveillance and screening services and may have wider implications for the delivery of other national screening programmes. Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening 2017; https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/abdominal‐aortic‐aneurysm‐screening/ 3.