The Effect on Trauma Care Secondary to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Collateral Damage From Diversion of Resources

Elliott R Haut^{1

2

3}, Ira L Leeds⁴, David H Livingston⁵

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey.

Elliott R Haut et al. Ann Surg. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 1;272(3):e204-e207.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004105.

Elliott R Haut^{1

2

3}, Ira L Leeds⁴, David H Livingston⁵

¹ Departments of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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