Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Use for Patients Undergoing Cancer-Directed Surgeries

Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Use for Patients Undergoing Cancer-Directed Surgeries

Emergency department (ED) use is a concern for surgery patients, physicians and health administrators particularly during a pandemic. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of the pandemic on ED use following cancer-directed surgeries. This is a retrospective cohort study of patients u...

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Main Authors: Antoine Eskander, Qing Li, Jiayue Yu, Julie Hallet, Natalie Coburn, Anna Dare, Kelvin K. W. Chan, Simron Singh, Ambica Parmar, Craig C. Earle, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Monika K. Krzyzanowska, Timothy P. Hanna, Antonio Finelli, Alexander V. Louie, Nicole Look-Hong, Jonathan C. Irish, Ian Witterick, Alyson Mahar, David R. Urbach, Danny Enepekides, Rinku Sutradhar, on behalf of the Pandemic—Ontario Collaborative in Cancer Research (POCCR)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
Series:Current Oncology
Subjects:
cancer
surgery
health services research
quality of care
COVID-19
emergency department
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1718-7729/29/3/153

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