Keisuke Kondo, Keiji Honda, Keiichi Goshima, Norihiko Inoue, Daisuke Shinjo, Takeshi Tsutsumi, Kiyohide Fushimi
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the potential impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and vaccinations on otologic diseases, including facial nerve paralysis (including Ramsay Hunt syndrome), vestibular neuritis, sudden sensorineural hearing loss, and Meniere's disease. METHODS: In this retrospective study, we conducted a time-series analysis employing a causal impact algorithm on a large-scale inpatient database in Japan. We compared the actual number of hospitalized patients with otologic diseases to two predictions: one without any covariates and another with a covariate accounting for the reduction in the number of hospitalized patients due to lockdown measures...
March 23, 2024: Auris, Nasus, Larynx