CV Nuclear Imaging Department COVID Impact Survey

4. Is your program:

• Integrated
• Independent
• Other - Please list Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

5. Does your program provide nuclear studies to:

• Inpatients
• Outpatients
• Both

6. Comparing your nuclear program volumes March and April of 2019 to March and April of 2020, have your volumes?

• Increased
• Decreased
• Stayed the same

If your volumes have decreased, by how much?

• 0-10%
• 11 - 25%
• 26-50%
• 51-75%
• >75%

7. Did you reschedule tests due to COVID? 

• Yes
• No

If yes, what percentage?

• 0 – 10%
• 11 -25%
• 26-50%
• 51-75%
• >75%

If yes, how far out did you reschedule your studies?

• 2 weeks
• 4 weeks
• 2 months
• >2 months

8. Did you change any of the SPECT imaging studies to other modalities?

• Yes
• No

If yes, which ones (choose all that apply)

• PET
• CT
• Other - Please list Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

9. Have you changed your stress testing protocol?

• Yes
• No

If yes – in what way? (Choose all that apply.)

• Avoid treadmill testing
• Stress only protocol
• Same day protocol
• Change in pharmacologic agent

If yes, have you had challenges with prior authorizations?

• Yes
• No

10. As you reemerge, has your plan included any of the following? (check all that apply)

• Change in patient flow
• Change in schedule management
• Clinical prioritization of imaging studies (starting with more urgent studies)
• Other - Please list Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

11. What are the biggest challenges that you have are or expect to experience?

• PPE availability
• Patient trust
• Capacity (more volume than capacity due to backlogs)
• Ability to social distance with your patient flow
• Staffing – bringing back furloughed staff
• Change in hours for staff
• Ability to return to previous volumes – either based on patient need or facility limitations
• Economic viability of the imaging program
• Other - Please list Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

12. If you have seen a decline in your volumes, do you expect your volumes to return to normal (previous volumes)?

• Yes
• No

If yes, how long do you expect the recovery to take?

• 1 month
• 3 months
• 6 months
• 12 months
• Greater than a year

If no, can you estimate what overall percentage in decline you expect?

• 0-10%
• 11 -25%
• 26-50%
• 51-75%
• >75%

13. Do you expect any permanent trends to utilize other modalities post-COVID?

• Yes
• No

If yes, to what? (Choose all that apply.)

• CT
• PET
• Other - Please list Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

14. Has COVID-19 impacted the plans for your AUC roll-out?

• Yes
• No

15.

Do you expect to have your AUC protocols and tools in place by 12/31/2020?

• Yes
• No