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Does the healthcare system know what to cut under the pandemic emergency pressure? An observational study on geographic variation of surgical procedures in Italy

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives During 2020 many countries reduced the number of elective surgeries to free up beds and cope with the COVID-19 outbreak. This situation led healthcare systems to prioritise elective interventions and reduce the overall volumes of treatments ...
Milena Vainieri, Sabina Nuti, Domenico Mantoan   +2 more
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Changes in the activity levels and financing sources of Israel’s private for-profit hospitals in the wake of reforms to the public-private divide

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2021
Background The Israeli National Health Insurance Law provides permanent residents with a basket of healthcare services through non-profit public health insurance plans, independently of the individual’s ability to pay.
Royi Barnea, Adi Niv-Yagoda, Yossi Weiss
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Elective and Emergency Surgical Procedures in a University Hospital [PDF]

Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões, 2022
Objective: to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on abdominal wall hernia repair surgeries and cholecystectomy in a referral center hospital. Methods: a retrospective, observational, cross-sectional study carried out at Hospital Universitário ...
MATEUS ROCCO, BRUNA LARISSA DE OLIVEIRA, DARINA ANDRADE ADDARIO RIZZARDI, GABRIEL RODRIGUES, GABRIELY DE OLIVEIRA, MILENA GONÇALVES GUERREIRO, VINÍCIUS SIPPEL CRUZ, CARLOS ROBERTO NAUFEL-JUNIOR   +7 more
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Impact of the Suspension of Elective Surgeries for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis during the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia, 2023
Objectives This study evaluated the radiographic progressions of scoliotic curves higher than 40° in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
Matheus Neves Castanheira, Giovanni Salvatore Nardone, Rafael de Paiva Luciano, Márcio Squassoni Leite   +3 more
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Resuming Elective Surgery during Covid-19: Can Inpatient Hospitals Collaborate with Ambulatory Surgery Centers?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2021
Background:. Little is known about the volume and scope of surgical procedures performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and the resources that ASCs may provide to assist local health systems.
Lee Squitieri, MD, PhD, MS, Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, Robert H. Brook, MD, ScD, Kevin C. Chung, MD, MS   +3 more
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A rational approach to manage surgical procedures in COVID Era – A perspective based on experience in a private referral hospital

Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2020
Background and Aims: COVID-19 disease has imposed challenges in caring for non-Covid elective surgical patients. As elective surgeries become essential, we propose to evaluate our approach and outcomes of surgical procedures performed during the initial ...
Rama Gupta, Bishav Mohan, Kamakshi Garg, Ashima Taneja, Satpal S Virk, Anju Grewal, Rajesh Mahajan   +6 more
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The effect of disruption due to COVID-19 on operating room utilization: Experience from a secondary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Introduction/Background: The disruption caused due to corona virus disease-2019 (Covid-19) has affected the overall health care delivery worldwide. The elective services were foremost to face the restrictions and closure, subsequently they were resumed ...
Mamdouh F Althaqeel, Mohammad N Alshanwani, Khalid Alqahtani, Mohammad Shibly Khan, Zeidan A Zeidan, Noorulzaman K Mohaideen, Khalid Albahooth, Walid Altassan, Assem S A. Alzoman, Abdulaziz S Alkhaldi   +9 more
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COVID-19: Implications, Reactions and Future Directions

Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2020
Humanity has faced several foes over the centuries, a formidable one amongst them is the current pandemic of COVID-19. The symptoms of COVID-19 are more or less related to the nose and throat.
Rahim Dhanani, Muhammad Wasif, Hamdan Ahmed Pasha, Muntazir Hussain, Shayan Khalid Ghaloo, Abdul Basit Shah Vardag, Khadija Mahmood, Raza Hussain   +7 more
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Cancellation of elective surgical procedures: A research agenda in Colombia

Iatreia, 2022
Cancellation of scheduled surgeries is a latent problem in Colombia, which encompasses negative consequences for the patient (physically and psychologically), the health care personnel (well-being, satisfaction, performance) and the institution (cost ...
Segnini, Franco Jesús , Domínguez-Torres, Luis Carlos, Vega-Peña, Neil Valentín   +2 more
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Cutaneous leiomyosarcoma on the face [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2018
: Leiomyosarcoma is a rare skin tumor, most common in white men in the fifth to eighth decades of life. Primary tumors are classified in dermal or subcutaneous, that differ by clinical and prognostic features. They may appear on any site of the body, but
Nathalia Dias Negrão Murback, Luiz C. Takita, Bruna Corrêa de Castro, Gunter Hans Filho   +3 more
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