在COVID-19期间推迟非紧急手术的后果:加拿大阿尔伯塔省的一项基于人口的回顾性队列研究

Khara Sauro1,2, Shabnam Vatanpour3, Abigail Thomas2

  • 1University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada kmsauro@ucalgary.ca.

BMJ open
|November 14, 2024
PubMed
概括

在COVID-19期间,医疗保健系统推迟了非紧急手术,导致手术完成率和等待时间的适度变化. 资源使用减少,但死亡率增加,这表明大流行对手术患者护理的延迟影响.

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