The British journal of surgery
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The battle of COVID-19 is currently at different levels of intensity in each country and even each city. The authors have prepared succinct recommendations regarding the care of patients with breast cancer, divided into phases that can easily be adapted to each units' needs and resources, and stepped up or stepped down according to escalating and de-escalating circumstances. The structure can also be transposed easily to different cancer types, enabling continued provision of best standards of care despite unprecedented stressors. Surgery must go on.
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Existing data on the safety of out-of-hours cholecystectomy are conflicting. The aim of this study was to investigate whether out-of-hours cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis is associated with a higher risk for complications compared with surgery during office hours. ⋯ Out-of-hours complications may relate to patient factors and the higher proportion of open procedures.
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Every patient has given permission for publication of information from the medical history as long as it is used for medical research purposes. ⋯ Informed consent was obtained from all the individual participants of the study.
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