The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed everyday life and reshaped the healthcare systems.
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Besides excess mortality, the pandemic has changed different areas of healthcare system, impacting on staff and first contact personnel, mental health and training, patients’ control and adherence to treatment.
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Generation of scientific evidence was also disrupted during the pandemic. Several scientific evidence produced were rushed and of poor quality.
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Adaptability of clinical trials became the new normal.
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Reshaping of healthcare systems to be more flexible and adapt more easily to unprecedented events is required to prevent future catastrophes.
Abstract
In the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably changed everyday life and significantly reshaped the healthcare systems.
Besides the direct effect on daily care leading to significant excess mortality, several collateral damages have been observed during the pandemic.
The impact of the pandemic led to staff shortages, disrupted education, worse healthcare professional well-being, and a lack of proper clinical training and research.
In this review we highlight the results of these important changes and how can the healthcare systems can adapt to prevent unprecedented events in case of future catastrophes.
