COVID-19: Global radiation oncology’s targeted response for pandemic preparedness

As the global COVID-19 pandemic escalates there is a need within radiation oncology to work to support our patients in the best way possible. Measures are required to reduce infection spread between patients and within the workforce. Departments need contingency planning to create capacity and conti...

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Autores principales: Simcock, Richard, Thomas, Toms Vengaloor, Estes, Christopher, Filippi, Andrea R., Katz, Matthew S., Pereira, Ian J., Saeed, Hina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7102593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32274425
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctro.2020.03.009
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description As the global COVID-19 pandemic escalates there is a need within radiation oncology to work to support our patients in the best way possible. Measures are required to reduce infection spread between patients and within the workforce. Departments need contingency planning to create capacity and continue essential treatments despite a reduced workforce. The #radonc community held an urgent online journal club on Twitter in March 2020 to discuss these issues and create some consensus on crucial next steps. There were 121 global contributors. This document summarises these discussions around themes of infection prevention, rationalisation of workload and working practice in the presence of infection.
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spelling pubmed-71025932020-03-31 COVID-19: Global radiation oncology’s targeted response for pandemic preparedness Simcock, Richard Thomas, Toms Vengaloor Estes, Christopher Filippi, Andrea R. Katz, Matthew S. Pereira, Ian J. Saeed, Hina Clin Transl Radiat Oncol Article As the global COVID-19 pandemic escalates there is a need within radiation oncology to work to support our patients in the best way possible. Measures are required to reduce infection spread between patients and within the workforce. Departments need contingency planning to create capacity and continue essential treatments despite a reduced workforce. The #radonc community held an urgent online journal club on Twitter in March 2020 to discuss these issues and create some consensus on crucial next steps. There were 121 global contributors. This document summarises these discussions around themes of infection prevention, rationalisation of workload and working practice in the presence of infection. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology. 2020-05 2020-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7102593/ /pubmed/32274425 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctro.2020.03.009 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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