Citation: Haribhai S, Bhatia K, Shahmanesh M (2023) Global elective breast- and colorectal cancer surgery performance backlogs, attributable mortality and implemented health system responses during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review. PLOS Glob Public Health 3(4): e0001413. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001413
Editor: Sarang Deo, Indian School of Business, INDIA
Received: November 28, 2022; Accepted: March 7, 2023; Published: April 4, 2023
Copyright: © 2023 Haribhai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: The data supporting the results of this study are available within the article and the accompanying Supplementary material. The metadata described in this article are available in the Open Science Framework at http://osf.io/xec69.
Funding: SH received a scholarship from University College London, for her postgraduate programme of study at the institution in 2020-2021, during which this study was undertaken. MS is an NIHR Research Professor (NIHR 301634). MS also receives funding from the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) R01 (5R01MH114560-03); Wellcome Trust (082384/Z/07/Z) and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-0336500). Publication fees for this review were funded by the Wellcome Trust (Grant number for Wellcome Trust Strategic Core award: 201433/Z/16/A). For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors of this manuscript have read the journal’s policy and have stated the following competing interests: During the article revision, SH has been affiliated (as an employee) with the International SOS. The International SOS had no role in the study- conceptualization, design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, funding or preparation of the manuscript. KB and MS, respectively, have declared that no competing interests exist.
Abbreviations: CASP, Critical Appraisal Skills Programme; CI, Confidence Interval; COVID-19, Coronavirus disease-2019; CRC, Colorectal cancer; DALY, Disability-adjusted life year; HCP, Healthcare personne; HER-2 receptor, Human epidermal growth factor receptor-2; HIC, High-income country; HSR, Health system response; LMIC, Low- or middle-income country; MeSH, Medical subject heading; NACRT, Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy; No, Number; OT, Operating theatre; PPE, Personal Protective Equipment; PRISMA, Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses; SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2; SDI, Socio-demographic index; U.K, United Kingdom; U.S, United States; UMIC, Upper middle-income country; WHO, World Health Organization
