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Elective surgery in the time of COVID-19

• The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a significant strain on the United States health care system. • Healthcare workers are rapidly altering their professional responsibilities to help meet hospital needs. • Surgeons have witnessed a dramatic change in their practices with rapidly decreasing elective...

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Autores principales: Diaz, Adrian, Sarac, Benjamin A., Schoenbrunner, Anna R., Janis, Jeffrey E., Pawlik, Timothy M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7161516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32312477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2020.04.014
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description • The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a significant strain on the United States health care system. • Healthcare workers are rapidly altering their professional responsibilities to help meet hospital needs. • Surgeons have witnessed a dramatic change in their practices with rapidly decreasing elective surgery. • Surgical leaders should develop a framework to help make decisions around elective surgery as information is evolving.
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spelling pubmed-71615162020-04-16 Elective surgery in the time of COVID-19 Diaz, Adrian Sarac, Benjamin A. Schoenbrunner, Anna R. Janis, Jeffrey E. Pawlik, Timothy M. Am J Surg Article • The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a significant strain on the United States health care system. • Healthcare workers are rapidly altering their professional responsibilities to help meet hospital needs. • Surgeons have witnessed a dramatic change in their practices with rapidly decreasing elective surgery. • Surgical leaders should develop a framework to help make decisions around elective surgery as information is evolving. Elsevier Inc. 2020-06 2020-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7161516/ /pubmed/32312477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2020.04.014 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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