Publications by authors named "Scott Isenburg"
Article Synopsis
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems faced challenges in prioritizing elective surgeries due to resource scarcity, prompting the need for a tool to objectively assess which cases should proceed.
- A multidisciplinary team at Emory Healthcare created a prioritization tool that considers patient survivability, functional impact of delays, and disease biology, enabling better communication for surgical decisions across multiple campuses.
- The tool proved effective by demonstrating a correlation between higher patient prioritization scores and reduced waiting times for surgeries, ensuring a fair and organized approach to managing time-sensitive procedures.
