Life or limb: an international qualitative study on decision making in sarcoma surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented as a global crisis over the last century. How do specialist surgeons make decisions about patient care in these unprecedent times?

Design

Between April and May 2020, we conducted an international qualitative study. Sarcoma surgeons from diverse global settings participated in 60 min interviews exploring surgical decision making during COVID-19. Interview data were analysed using an inductive thematic analysis approach.

Setting

Participants represented public and private hospitals in 14 countries, in different phases of the first wave of the pandemic: Australia, Argentina, Canada, India, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and USA.

Participants

From 22 invited sarcoma su

SUBMITTER: Bunzli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8413468 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature