The initial experience and response of vascular surgeons in Michigan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-27-2021

Publication Title

Vascular

Abstract

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The unprecedented pandemic spread of the novel coronavirus has severely impacted the delivery of healthcare services in the United States and around the world, and has exposed a variety of inefficiencies in healthcare infrastructure. Some states have been disproportionately affected such as New York and Michigan. In fact, Detroit and its surrounding areas have been named as the initial Midwest epicenter where over 106,000 cases have been confirmed in April 2020.

Medical Subject Headings

COVID-19/epidemiology/prevention & control/therapy; Civil Defense/standards; Health Care Rationing; Hospital Restructuring/methods/organization & administration; Humans; Infection Control/methods/organization & administration; Michigan/epidemiology; Organizational Innovation; Patient Selection; Resource Allocation; SARS-CoV-2; Telemedicine/organization & administration; Vascular Diseases/diagnosis/epidemiology/surgery; Vascular Surgical Procedures/organization & administration/statistics &; numerical data; Covid-19; Michigan; coronavirus; pandemic; vascular; vascular surgery

PubMed ID

33504279

ePublication

ePub ahead of print

Volume

29

Issue

6

First Page

856

Last Page

864

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