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cord-011402-sk4tgdf8	Low, Tze-Yi	Restructuring the surgical service during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from a tertiary institution in Singapore	2020-05-15		.txt	text/plain	1182	74	56	title: Restructuring the surgical service during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from a tertiary institution in Singapore Restructuring the surgical service during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from a tertiary institution in Singapore Keywords: COVID-19 Health policy Infectious diseases Healthcare administration Surgery Designated pandemic wards managed confirmed or high-risk cases, providing natural segregation among nursing staff, who are ward-based. Central to our plan was the reorganization of medical staff in our department into three independent teams (Fig. 1) to prevent the standing team from working continuously and avoid the complete shutdown of outpatient services should any team become afflicted with the virus. To study the impact on patient care, operational and safety data in the month immediately post-activation of our pandemic preparedness plan were retrieved and compared with data from a similar period in 2019. There were 338 reported incidents for surgical patients from February to March 2020, compared to 397 for the same period in 2019 (Fig. 2d) .	./cache/cord-011402-sk4tgdf8.txt	./txt/cord-011402-sk4tgdf8.txt