Elective surgery cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic: global predictive modelling to inform surgical recovery plans

Journal of British Surgery, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine hospital services globally. This
study estimated the total number of adult elective operations that would be cancelled …

Resource requirements for reintroducing elective surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: modelling study

AJ Fowler, TD Dobbs, YI Wan, R Laloo… - British Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
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 …

The likely economic impact of fewer elective surgical procedures on US hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic

MJ Best, EG McFarland, GF Anderson, U Srikumaran - Surgery, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Clearing the surgical backlog caused by COVID-19 in Ontario: a time series modelling study

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 …

Surgery triage during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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 …

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

K Søreide, J Hallet, JB Matthews… - Journal of British …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Surgical activity in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide observational cohort study

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A single-centre observational cohort study to evaluate volume and severity of emergency general surgery admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: is there …

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 …

Changes in emergency general surgery during Covid-19 in Scotland: a prospective cohort study

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 …

Surgery and COVID-19: a rapid scoping review of the impact of the first wave of COVID-19 on surgical services

C O'Rielly, J Ng-Kamstra, A Kania-Richmond, J Dort… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To understand how surgical services have been reorganised during and
following public health emergencies, particularly the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic …