{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast","title":"E17 David Urbach On Checklists, Wait Times In The Time Of COVID, And Medical Devices","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3395,"description":"David Urbach is a bariatric surgeon and health services research at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. We had a wide ranging discussion with him where we talked checklist, the impact of the word \"cancer\" on patient decision-making, wait-times in Canada in the face of COVID, and medical devices in surgery.\n1. David Urbach and colleagues on \"Introduction of Surgical Safety Checklists in Ontario, Canada\": https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1308261\n2. Is WHO’s surgical safety checklist being hyped? Commentary from David Urbach and Justin Dimick in BJS. https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4700\n3. Impact of the word \"cancer\" in thyroid nodules paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2728810\n4. wait times in Canada. Dr. Urbach's Op-ed in \"The Province\": https://theprovince.com/opinion/op-ed/dr-david-urbach-how-to-shorten-hospital-wait-times-in-canada\n5. Centralized intake system in Edmonton. Facilitated Access to Surgical Treatment (FAST) program in Edmonton: https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/findhealth/Service.aspx?id=1080550&serviceAtFacilityID=1125938\n6. David Urbach Canadian Journal of Surgery editorial, \"Heroes, citizens, and the shoulders of giants\": http://canjsurg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/63-2-E118.pdf","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/oyvpQFDz9LsIXBWiTQnBaf-TEq_0jeSP2KI52Z2VDVg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZTNh/MWI2MDcwZTcwMGVk/ZjIxM2M4N2VjMWFj/NTdlNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}