Access to Cancer Surgery in a Universal Health Care System During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
prospective_cohort · Level II
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 33704472.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.1104 and PMC identifier 7953273.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
This cohort study quantifies the cancer surgical backlog and determines whether there were differences in sociodemographic and hospital characteristics among patients undergoing cancer surgery in the pre– and peri–coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) periods.
Medical subject headings
- COVID-19
- Health Services Accessibility
- Neoplasms
- Surgical Procedures, Operative
- Universal Health Care