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Course: Using Health Services Research to Address the Unique Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2021-05-21

The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound effects on the health care workforce; more than 130 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 3 million deaths have been recorded worldwide as of April 1, 2021. To reduce health care resource utilization and increase the expected need for critical care capacity as COVID-19 cases surged, surgical care was dramatically interrupted, with more than 28 million elective surgeries canceled worldwide. In response to the major disruptions of surgical care, the Surgical Outcomes Club assembled a 3-part panel to highlight key ways in which the surgical health services research community responded. This Viewpoint serves to disseminate mechanisms for how surgical outcomes researchers can contribute to (1) safely delivering evidence-based surgical care during the pandemic, (2) accelerating the path to health equity in the wake of disparities provoked by the pandemic, and (3) using the unique conditions of the pandemic as a natural experiment to define the future of surgical care delivery.


Educational Objective
To identify the key insights or developments described in this article


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