Home Care for Cancer Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Double Triage Protocol

Patients with cancer have an increased risk of developing severe forms of coronavirus disease 2019, and patients with advanced cancer who are followed at home represent a particularly frail population. Although with substantial differences, the challenges that cancer care professionals have to face...

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Autores principales: Porzio, Giampiero, Cortellini, Alessio, Bruera, Eduardo, Verna, Lucilla, Ravoni, Giulio, Peris, Flaminia, Spinelli, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7165240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32240755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.03.021
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author Porzio, Giampiero
Cortellini, Alessio
Bruera, Eduardo
Verna, Lucilla
Ravoni, Giulio
Peris, Flaminia
Spinelli, Giuseppe
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description Patients with cancer have an increased risk of developing severe forms of coronavirus disease 2019, and patients with advanced cancer who are followed at home represent a particularly frail population. Although with substantial differences, the challenges that cancer care professionals have to face during a pandemic are quite similar to those posed by natural disasters. We have already managed the oncological home care service in L’Aquila (middle Italy) after the 2009 earthquake. With this letter, we want to share the procedures and tools that we have started using at the home care service of the Tuscany Tumor Association during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-71652402020-04-20 Home Care for Cancer Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Double Triage Protocol Porzio, Giampiero Cortellini, Alessio Bruera, Eduardo Verna, Lucilla Ravoni, Giulio Peris, Flaminia Spinelli, Giuseppe J Pain Symptom Manage Article Patients with cancer have an increased risk of developing severe forms of coronavirus disease 2019, and patients with advanced cancer who are followed at home represent a particularly frail population. Although with substantial differences, the challenges that cancer care professionals have to face during a pandemic are quite similar to those posed by natural disasters. We have already managed the oncological home care service in L’Aquila (middle Italy) after the 2009 earthquake. With this letter, we want to share the procedures and tools that we have started using at the home care service of the Tuscany Tumor Association during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-07 2020-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7165240/ /pubmed/32240755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.03.021 Text en © 2020 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 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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