{"doi":"10.1016/j.chstcc.2024.100080","title":"Cancellation and Resumption of Elective Surgeries Over Time Across a National Sample of US Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic","abstract":"To the Editor:Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, many US hospitals responded to surges in demand for intensive care by canceling elective surgeries. 1,2Intended to free up resources (eg, ICU beds, personnel) for critically ill patients with pandemic-related illness, these policies also posed risks of patient harm because of delayed care and lost hospital revenue. 3,4A better understanding of the decision-making underlying surgery cancellation could inform future policies enacted to respond to surges of critical illness.Therefore, we sought to describe the timing of elective surgery cancellation during the pandemic and to test the hypothesis that decisions to cancel elective surgeries were made independently of local disease burden. MethodsWe previously conducted a survey of a representative sample of US hospitals with ICUs evaluating their pandemic preparedness during the first wave of COVID-19. 2Hospitals were identified for inclusion through two mechanisms.First, we selected a representative sample of 330 US hospitals with ICUs using the 2018 American Hospital Association Annual Survey Database and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Healthcare Cost Report Information System.We then enriched this sample by purposively selecting all hospitals in the four regions with the greatest cumulative COVID-19 incidence at the time of study launch (n 210).Second, we surveyed hospitals participating in the Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study as part of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Discovery Research Network.In total, 849 hospitals were included in the original survey.","journal":"CHEST Critical Care","year":2024,"id":473363,"datarank":0.10397207708399181,"base_score":0.6931471805599453,"endowment":0.6931471805599453,"self_citation_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9577,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":306811,"name":"Deena Kelly Costa","orcid":"0000-0002-7776-5349","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":648546,"name":"Billie S. Davis","orcid":"0000-0002-6342-4244","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":648547,"name":"Andrew J. Admon","orcid":"0000-0002-7432-3764","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1309071,"name":"Bo Zhao","orcid":"0000-0002-7834-6672","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":369068,"name":"Jeremy M. Kahn","orcid":"0000-0001-9688-5576","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":447077,"name":"Meeta Prasad Kerlin","orcid":"0000-0002-3239-1443","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":337422,"name":"Kelly C. Vranas","orcid":"0000-0001-7450-3717","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":6,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:06:01.000126Z","pmid":"40727681","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}