… guidance for prioritisation of surgical services to further minimise the effect of the COVID-19
pandemic across various overburdened surgical units and preserve the surgical workforce. …

… Of note, major cancer surgery represents a compelling … on prioritisation strategies during
the current COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the need for better patient selection for surgery. …

… in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes, we recommend that COVID-19 screening
should be mandatory preoperatively for patients considering bariatric and metabolic surgery. …

… Guidance from the Colleges of Surgery in the … be prioritised for elective surgery by a
combination of clinical urgency of the condition requiring surgery and the vulnerability to COVID-19 …

… The reduced capacity for routine surgery during the COVID-19 outbreak triggers severe …
to COVID-19 is estimated close to that of SARS-Cov-2 2 . Planning and scheduling of surgery …

… We developed a surgical prioritisation framework that provides information that can be
used to set priorities in elective surgeries. For example, the highest loss in quality of life due to …

… There are mainly recommendations for urgent/emergent surgery that assess the risk of the
… of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients undergoing surgical procedures in a general surgery …

… COVID-19 pandemic and its associated measures. One way to alleviate the problem might
be to use prioritisation … have been reported in prioritisation protocols from various specialties, …

… approach and adopted the more general American College of Surgeons (ACS) guidelines.
… to COVID-19. Our aim was to assess whether current practice is in line with the COVID-19 …

… As we continue to move beyond the emergency stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, and face
up to the daunting backlog before us, it is important that we ensure that surgical prioritisation …