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Waiting time of inpatients before elective surgical procedures at a State Government Teaching Hospital in India

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2017
Background: Abundant published literature exists addressing the issues of outpatient waiting lists before surgery. However, there is no published literature on inpatient waiting time before elective surgical procedures.
Shreyasi Ray, Jyotirmay Kirtania
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Edmonton frailty scale score predicts postoperative delirium: a retrospective cohort analysis

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Frailty has been associated with postoperative delirium (POD). Studies suggest that the Fried phenotype has a stronger association with POD than the Edmonton Frailty Scale (EFS) criteria.
Frederick Sieber, Susan Gearhart, Dianne Bettick, Nae-Yuh Wang   +3 more
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High-intensity interval exercise training before abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (HIT-AAA): protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial [PDF]

, 2014
Introduction: In patients with large abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), open surgical or endovascular aneurysm repair procedures are often used to minimise the risk of aneurysm-related rupture and death; however, aneurysm repair itself carries a high risk.
Kerr, K., Kerr, Karen, Weston, Matthew; id_orcid, Tew, G.A., Tew, Garry A, Tew, Garry, Danjoux, Gerard, Batterham, A.M., Batterham, Alan M, Alan M Batterham, Gray, Joanne, Martin, D., Danjoux, Gerard R., Nawaz, Shah, Matthew Weston, Yates, David, Weston, M., Elke Kothmann, Tew, G. A. (Garry), Gerard Danjoux, Gray, J., Weston, Matthew, Yates, D., Garry A Tew, Kothmann, Elke, Martin, Denis, Denis Martin, Martin, Denis; id_orcid, Nawaz, S., Batterham, Alan, Shah Nawaz, Kothmann, E., Joanne Gray, Danjoux, G., David Yates, Karen Kerr   +35 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on orthopaedic care: a call for nonoperative management

Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease, 2020
Background: Surgical specialties face unique challenges caused by SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19). These disruptions will call on clinicians to have greater consideration for non-operative treatment options to help manage patient symptoms and provide therapeutic ...
Mark R. Phillips, Yaping Chang, Robert D. Zura, Samir Mehta, Peter V. Giannoudis, Peter A. Nolte, Mohit Bhandari   +6 more
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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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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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Maximum surgical blood ordering schedule in a tertiary trauma center in northern India: A proposal

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2012
Context: Over ordering of blood is a common practice in elective surgical practice. Considerable time and effort is spent on cross-matching for each patient undergoing a surgical procedure.
Arulselvi Subramanian, Sushma Sagar, Subodh Kumar, Deepak Agrawal, Venencia Albert, Mahesh Chandra Misra   +5 more
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Resuming Elective Paediatric Surgical Procedures in the Era of COVID-19

African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2021
Background: The novel coronavirus and the disease it causes COVID-19, like other viral outbreaks, have an unpredictable timeline. Therefore, a triumph in the battle against COVID-19 could only be achieved if a health care system's capacity to support a potentially overwhelming increase in critical patient care needs is ...
Al-Omar, Khaled, Bakkar, Sohail
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Thirty-day postoperative mortality after colorectal cancer surgery in England. [PDF]

, 2011
OBJECTIVES: To assess the variation in risk-adjusted 30-day postoperative mortality for patients with colorectal cancer between hospital trusts within the English NHS.
Quirke, Philip, Finan, Paul J, B. Rachet, E. F. Taylor, D. Forman, E. J. A. Morris, P. J. Finan, Thomas, James D, M. P. Coleman, Taylor, Elizabeth F, Forman, David, J. D. Thomas, Coleman, Michel P, P. Quirke, Rachet, Bernard, Morris, Eva JA   +15 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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