Revisiting the concept of urgency in surgical prioritization and addressing backlogs in elective surgery provision

Affiliations

¹ Graduate Department of Philosophy (Wiebe), University of Toronto; Clinical Research, Perioperative Services (Wiebe), The Hospital for Sick Children; Division of Orthopedic Surgery (Kelley), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Surgery (Kelley), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Departments of Bioethics and of Critical Care Medicine (Kirsch), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont. kayla.wiebe@sickkids.ca.
² Graduate Department of Philosophy (Wiebe), University of Toronto; Clinical Research, Perioperative Services (Wiebe), The Hospital for Sick Children; Division of Orthopedic Surgery (Kelley), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Surgery (Kelley), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Departments of Bioethics and of Critical Care Medicine (Kirsch), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont.

Kayla Wiebe et al. CMAJ. 2022.

. 2022 Aug 2;194(29):E1037-E1039.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220420.

¹ Graduate Department of Philosophy (Wiebe), University of Toronto; Clinical Research, Perioperative Services (Wiebe), The Hospital for Sick Children; Division of Orthopedic Surgery (Kelley), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Surgery (Kelley), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Departments of Bioethics and of Critical Care Medicine (Kirsch), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont. kayla.wiebe@sickkids.ca.
² Graduate Department of Philosophy (Wiebe), University of Toronto; Clinical Research, Perioperative Services (Wiebe), The Hospital for Sick Children; Division of Orthopedic Surgery (Kelley), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Surgery (Kelley), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Departments of Bioethics and of Critical Care Medicine (Kirsch), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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