Surgical wait list management in Canada during a pandemic: many challenges ahead.
Can J Surg
; 63(3): E226-E228, 2020 05 08.
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em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32386471
ABSTRACT
Summary:
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a massive impact on waits for elective operations, with tens of thousands of scheduled surgeries being cancelled or postponed across Canada. Provincial governments will likely not only reopen elective surgical capacity when it is deemed safe, but also target new funding to address the backlog of cases. There is a dearth of research on whether the provinces' approaches to managing wait lists are equitable from a patients' needs perspective or if they are associated with patients' perception of outcomes. The surgical cost models used in the past won't be useful to governments and hospital managers. New models based on hospitals' marginal costs, associated with running on weekends or off-hours and social distancing parameters, will be needed. Surgeon input, collaboration and leadership during the strategy development, implementation and management of surgical wait lists postpandemic will be imperative, as these decisions will significantly affect the health and lives of many Canadians.
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Base de dados:
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Assunto principal:
Pneumonia Viral
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Triagem
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Listas de Espera
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Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Eletivos
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Infecções por Coronavirus
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Pandemias
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Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
País como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article