A Roadmap for Restructuring Surgery Department during a Pandemic

What's the news. A list of guiding principles—including a commitment to structuring agile and flexible COVID-19 services in a multidisciplinary fashion; maintaining a workforce to provide for the urgent healthcare needs of all patients—whether or not they have COVID-19; ensuring agile and flexible shift schedules; and making the mental and physical health and safety of clinicians a priority—is included among the resources in Blueprint for Restructuring a Department of Surgery in Concert With the Health Care System During a Pandemic, an April 14, 2020, special communication from JAMA.