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cord-314468-9anuq5bt	Billig, Jessica I.	The Compounding Access Problem for Surgical Care: Innovations in the Post-COVID Era	2020-06-02		.txt	text/plain	1142	79	48	1 Long delays in care for essential non-urgent surgery, including cancer operations, can lead to lower overall survival and higher complication rates. As we surface from the COVID-19 pandemic, surgeons will face the dilemma of scarce operative resources (i.e.: time, operating room space, surgical workforce, etc.) and how best to provide for the multitude of patients who had their surgical care delayed. Expansion of surgical access will need to be in the context of continuing COVID-related constraints, including limited hospital bed and intensive care unit capacity and a possible "second wave" of infections. Given this compounded access problem, we need to evaluate Copyright © 2020 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. What new strategies are needed to improve access to surgical care in the post-COVID-19 era? Telehealth can improve access to surgical care through minimizing patient travel, obviating the need for significant time off of work, and promoting flexibility in time of day that visits are scheduled.	./cache/cord-314468-9anuq5bt.txt	./txt/cord-314468-9anuq5bt.txt