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Immediate and long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delivery of surgical services

British journal of surgery · 2020 · Vol. 107(10) · pp. 1250–1261

Kjetil Søreide✉(Stavanger University Hospital)Julie Hallet(Sunnybrook Health Science Centre)Jeffrey B. Matthews(University of Chicago)Andreas A. Schnitzbauer(Goethe University Frankfurt)Pål‐Dag Line(Oslo University Hospital)Paul B.S. Lai(Chinese University of Hong Kong)J.J. Gestal Otero(Hospital Clínico San Carlos)Dario Callegaro(Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori)Susanne G Warner(City of Hope)Nancy N. Baxter(The University of Melbourne)Catherine Teh(Makati Medical Center)Joshua S Ng-Kamstra(University of Calgary)John G. Meara(Boston Children's Hospital)Lars Hagander(Lund University)Laura Lorenzon(Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic)

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Abstract

Patients are being deprived of surgical access, with uncertain loss of function and risk of adverse prognosis as a collateral effect of the pandemic. Surgical services need a contingency plan for maintaining surgical care in an ongoing or postpandemic phase.

COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Healthcare Systems and Challenges Global Health and SurgeryMedicineCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PandemicTerm (time)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)SurgeryIntensive care medicineVirologyPathology

MeSH terms

COVID-19Delivery of Health CareHumansSurgical Procedures, OperativeGlobal HealthInfection ControlPractice Guidelines as TopicPerioperative CarePandemics

Citations

708

FWCI

53.81

field-weighted impact

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100%

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