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Cataract Services in the COVID-19 era: Risk, Consent and Prioritisation

2020-09-09

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold>The COVID-19 pandemic halted non-emergency surgery across Scotland. Measures to mitigating the risks of transmitting COVID-19 are creating significant challenges to recommencement of all surgical services safely. We describe the development of a risk stratification tool to prioritise patients for cataract surgery and report the demographics and comorbidities of p...

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Literature Corpus work: 8191c213-d536-5952-94d8-a86fd8de8b42
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-72755/v1

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