COVID-19 pandemic: Building organisational flexibility to scale transplant programs
| Autor: | Jeevan Prakash Gopal, Vassilios Papalois |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Opinion Review
Transplantation business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Risk of infection 030232 urology & nephrology COVID-19 Flexibility (personality) 030230 surgery Public relations Transparency (behavior) Organ donation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Organisational flexibility Honesty Scale (social sciences) Pandemic Care delivery Medicine business Clinical decision making media_common |
| Zdroj: | World Journal of Transplantation |
| ISSN: | 2220-3230 |
| DOI: | 10.5500/wjt.v10.i10.277 |
| Popis: | The prevailing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has challenged our lives in an unprecedented manner. The pandemic has had a significant impact on transplantation worldwide. The logistics of travel restrictions, stretching of available resources, unclear risk of infection in immunosuppressed transplant recipients, and evolving guidelines on testing and transplantation are some of the factors that have unfavourably influenced transplant activity. We must begin to build organisational flexibility in order to restart transplantation so that we can be mindful stewards of organ donation and sincere advocates for our patients. Building a culture of honesty and transparency (with patients, families, colleagues, societies, and authorities), keeping the channels of communication open, working in collaboration with others (at local, regional, national, and international levels), and not restarting without rethinking and appraising all elements of our practice, are the main underlying principles to increase the flexibility. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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