Minimising population health loss in times of scarce surgical capacity: a modelling study for surgical procedures performed in nonacademic hospitals

• Main Authors: Anouk M. I. A. van Alphen (Author), Kira S. van Hof (Author), Benjamin Y. Gravesteijn (Author), Eline M. Krijkamp (Author), Pieter A. G. M. Bakx (Author), Peter Langenbach (Author), Jan J. Busschbach (Author), Hester F. Lingsma (Author), Robert J. Baatenburg de Jong (Author), Value Based Operation Room Triage team collaborators (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The burden of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a reduction of available health care capacity for regular care. To guide prioritisation of semielective surgery in times of scarcity, we previously developed a decision model to quantify the expected health loss due to delay of surg...