Evolution of the surgical procedure gap during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: cross-sectional and modelling study

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ² Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁴ ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁵ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁶ Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁷ Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Department of Ophthalmology, Kingston Health Science Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery/Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹² Division of General Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.