Understanding risks, mitigation and innovation for surgery in a COVID-19 world

M Birchall¹, J Blazeby^{2

3}, N Blencowe³, J Donovan³, D Elliott³, M Jepson³, P Hutchinson⁴, D Jayne⁵, A Skilton³

Affiliations

¹ Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL, London, UK.
² NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
³ Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

M Birchall et al. Br J Surg. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;107(8):e247.

doi: 10.1002/bjs.11691. Epub 2020 May 15.

M Birchall¹, J Blazeby^{2

3}, N Blencowe³, J Donovan³, D Elliott³, M Jepson³, P Hutchinson⁴, D Jayne⁵, A Skilton³

¹ Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL, London, UK.
² NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
³ Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

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Seah KM. Seah KM. Br J Surg. 2020 Oct;107(11):e558. doi: 10.1002/bjs.11823. Epub 2020 Aug 21. Br J Surg. 2020. PMID: 32822088 No abstract available.

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