Response of US hospitals to elective surgical cases in the COVID-19 pandemic

Br J Anaesth. 2021 Jan;126(1):e46-e48. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.10.013. Epub 2020 Oct 19.

Authors

Romain Pirracchio¹, Orestes Mavrothalassitis¹, Michael Mathis², Sachin Kheterpal², Matthieu Legrand³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; F-CRIN INI-CRCT Network, Nancy, France. Electronic address: [email protected].

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; elective surgery; emergency management; healthcare policy; pandemic response.

Publication types

Letter
Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / surgery*
Elective Surgical Procedures / trends*
Hospitals / trends*
Humans
Registries
United States / epidemiology