Trends in degenerative lumbar spinal surgery during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Republic of Korea: A national study utilizing the national health insurance database

• Woon Tak Yuh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Woon Tak Yuh, Jinhee Kim

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

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• Jinhee Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Woon Tak Yuh, Jinhee Kim

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Medical Research Collaborating Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3787-2497

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• Mi-Sook Kim ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ M-SK and CHK contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors

  Affiliations Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Medical Research Collaborating Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4505-9167

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• Jun-Hoe Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Young Rak Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Sum Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Chun Kee Chung,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3485-2327

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• Chang-Hyun Lee,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Sung Bae Park,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Kyoung-Tae Kim,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Republic of Korea

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• John M. Rhee,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Young San Ko,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6668-0905

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• Chi Heon Kim

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chiheon1@snu.ac.kr

  ¶‡ M-SK and CHK contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Medical Device Development, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0497-1130

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