Autor: |
Linda Mileshkin, Florian Lordick, Solange Peters, Nick Pavlakis, Deme Karikios, Grace Chazan, Fanny Franchini, Marliese Alexander, Prunella Blinman, Rob Zielinski, David Ball, Gavin Wright, Maarten IJzerman, Benjamin Solomon |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2020 |
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Zdroj: |
ESMO Open, Vol 5, Iss 6 (2020) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
2059-7029 |
DOI: |
10.1136/esmoopen-2020-001090 |
Popis: |
Objectives To report clinician-perceived changes to cancer service delivery in response to COVID-19.Design Multidisciplinary Australasian cancer clinician survey in collaboration with the European Society of Medical Oncology.Setting Between May and June 2020 clinicians from 70 countries were surveyed; majority from Europe (n=196; 39%) with 1846 COVID-19 cases per million people, Australia (AUS)/New Zealand (NZ) (n=188; 38%) with 267/236 per million and Asia (n=75; 15%) with 121 per million at time of survey distribution.Participants Medical oncologists (n=372; 74%), radiation oncologists (n=91; 18%) and surgical oncologists (n=38; 8%).Results Eighty-nine per cent of clinicians reported altering clinical practices; more commonly among those with versus without patients diagnosed with COVID-19 (n=142; 93% vs n=225; 86%, p=0.03) but regardless of community transmission levels (p=0.26). More European clinicians (n=111; 66.1%) had treated patients diagnosed with COVID-19 compared with Asia (n=20; 27.8%) and AUS/NZ (n=8; 4.8%), p |
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