Background The COVID-19 response required the cancellation of all but the most urgent surgical procedures. The number of cancelled surgical procedures owing to Covid-19, and …
Background To help control the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, elective procedures have been cancelled in most US hospitals by government order. The purpose of this study is …
J Wang, S Vahid, M Eberg, S Milroy, J Milkovich… - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
BACKGROUND: To mitigate the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), jurisdictions worldwide ramped down nonemergent surgeries, creating a global surgical …
WJ Babidge, DR Tivey, JG Kovoor… - ANZ journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background The novel coronavirus, SARS‐CoV‐2, caused the COVID‐19 global pandemic. In response, the Australian and New Zealand governments activated their respective …
Background The ongoing pandemic is having a collateral health effect on delivery of surgical care to millions of patients. Very little is known about pandemic management and …
TD Dobbs, JAG Gibson, AJ Fowler, TE Abbott… - British journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background A significant proportion of healthcare resource has been diverted to the care of those with COVID-19. This study reports the volume of surgical activity and the number of …
RC McLean, J Young, A Musbahi, JX Lee… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has led to changes in NHS surgical service provision, including reduced elective surgical and endoscopic activity, with only essential emergency …
L Dick, J Green, J Brown, E Kennedy, R Cassidy… - World Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Introduction Covid-19 has had a significant impact on all aspects of health care. We aimed to characterise the trends in emergency general surgery at a district general hospital in …
Objectives To understand how surgical services have been reorganised during and following public health emergencies, particularly the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic …