Seshadri C Mudumbai, Rodney A Gabriel, Stephen Howell, Jonathan M Tan, Robert E Freundlich, Vikas O'Reilly Shah, Samir Kendale, Karl Poterack, Brian S Rothman
The role of informatics in public health has increased over the past few decades, and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has underscored the critical importance of aggregated, multicenter, high-quality, near-real-time data to inform decision-making by physicians, hospital systems, and governments. Given the impact of the pandemic on perioperative and critical care services (eg, elective procedure delays; information sharing related to interventions in critically ill patients; regional bed-management under crisis conditions), anesthesiologists must recognize and advocate for improved informatic frameworks in their local environments...
February 1, 2024: Anesthesia and Analgesia