… Surgeons urgently need guidance on how to deliver surgical services safely and effectively
during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim was to identify the key domains that should be …

… a limited access to critical care and surgical services. Following the outbreak of a pandemic,
… access to medical services for the most seriously ill patients affected by COVID-19. Moreover…

… In regions where hospital networks already exist, attempts at developing ‘COVID-19’ and ‘non-COVID-19’
hospitals may be a reasonable way to preserve surgical services and normal …

… Our objective was to understand how surgical services have been reorganised during and
following public health emergencies, particularly the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, …

… As we start contemplating the process of safe resuming elective surgical services, we are
faced with the unavoidable fact that some aspects of our practice and our professional …

… of COVID-19, with a further 1 million cancellations expected due to difficulties in delivering
surgical services … waves of COVID-19 on elective care, not limited to surgical services. A large …

… surgical services, … that all surgical patients should be screened for COVID-19, with preference
given to PCR tests. Regarding surgical practice recommendations, we believe that surgical …

… reported incidence of COVID-19 in previous surgical studies has … As these were largely
based on early COVID-19 pandemic … surgical co-morbidity of surgical patients with COVID-19 is …

… Our population-based study aimed to characterize the impact of COVID-19 on the
provision of scheduled and urgent surgical services, and to explore interhospital variation in …

… Orthopedic surgical services were most impacted with a 74.3% decline relative to the
same quarter in 2019 (Table 1). Obstetrics and Gynecology was least impacted. Elective …