A new model to prioritize waiting lists for elective surgery under the COVID-19 pandemic pressure. Roberto Valente MD PhD 1,2 , Stefano Di Domenico MD PhD 1 , Matteo Mascherini MD 1 , Gregorio Santori MD PhD 3 , Francesco Papadia MD 1,3 , Giovanni Orengo MD 4 , Angelo Gratarola MD 5 , Ferdinando Cafiero MD 1,8 Franco De Cian MD 1,3 Collaborators Enzo Andorno 1 , Giulia Buzzatti 6 , Susan Campbell 7 , Walter Locatelli 8 , Marco Filauro 9 , Marta Filauro 1 , Marco Frascio 1,3 , Carlo Introini 9 , Franca Martelli 4 , Guido Moscato 1 , Giorgio Orsero 5 , Giorgio Peretti 1,3 , Paolo Pronzato 6 , Edoardo Raposio 3,6 , Mirella Rossi 1 , Stefano Scabini 1 , Nicola Solari 1 , Carlo Terrone 1,3 , Luca Timossi 10 , Giovanni Ucci 4 Affiliations 1 Department of Surgery, Policlinico S. Martino, Genoa - Italy 2 Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK 3 Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics (DISC), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy (4) Hospital Leadership Department, Policlinico S. Martino, Genoa Italy 5 Department of Emergency, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Policlinico S. Martino, Genoa Italy (6) Department of Hematology and Oncology, Policlinico S. Martino, Genoa, Italy (7) Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy (8) Regional Inter-Trust Surgical Departments, Regional Healthcare Trust, Liguria Region Health Administration, Italy (9) Department of Surgery, Galliera Hospital, Genoa, Italy (10) Department of Surgery, International Evangelical Hospital, Genoa, Italy Corresponding Author Roberto Valente MD, PhD, MSc, FEBS(HPB), FRCS(Eng) Department of Surgery, Policlinico S. Martino, Genoa, Italy Largo Rosanna Benzi 10 16132 – Genoa, Italy Email: roberto.valente@hsanmartino.it, r.valente@ucl.ac.uk . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review) The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted November 5, 2020. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.21.20157719 doi: medRxiv preprint NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice.