A novel hospital capacity versus clinical justification triage score (CCTS) for prioritization of spinal surgeries in the "new normal state" of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gabriel Ka Po LiuJun-Hao TanHwee Weng Dennis HeyLeok Lim LauJoseph ThambiahNaresh KumarJonathan TanJohn RuizVincent NgaSein LwinKejia TeoChou NingRohit Vijay AgrawalBryan NgWeng Hoa WongTseng Tsai YeoHee-Kit WongPublished in: European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society (2021)
This study is a proof of concept for the novel CCTS scoring system to prioritize surgeries to meet the rapidly changing demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. It offers a simple and objective method to stratify patients who require surgery and allows these complex and difficult decisions to be unbiased and made transparently among surgeons and hospital administrators.