Contingency Plans in a Radiation Oncology Department Amid the 2019-nCoV Outbreak in Switzerland

The ongoing novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic is expected to develop into an unprecedented stress test for health care systems worldwide. This brief report, written from a radiation oncology perspective during the developing outbreak of 2019-nCoV in Switzerland, highlights the challenges identi...

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Autores principales: Papachristofilou, Alexandros, Finazzi, Tobias, Kohler, Goetz, Dott, Christian, Zimmermann, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Recommendations for clinic operations and treatment during COVID19
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32363249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2020.03.012
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author Papachristofilou, Alexandros
Finazzi, Tobias
Kohler, Goetz
Dott, Christian
Zimmermann, Frank
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description The ongoing novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic is expected to develop into an unprecedented stress test for health care systems worldwide. This brief report, written from a radiation oncology perspective during the developing outbreak of 2019-nCoV in Switzerland, highlights the challenges identified and measures taken in our department to mitigate risks and ensure continued operations during the outbreak.
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spelling pubmed-71954542020-05-02 Contingency Plans in a Radiation Oncology Department Amid the 2019-nCoV Outbreak in Switzerland Papachristofilou, Alexandros Finazzi, Tobias Kohler, Goetz Dott, Christian Zimmermann, Frank Adv Radiat Oncol Recommendations for clinic operations and treatment during COVID19 The ongoing novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic is expected to develop into an unprecedented stress test for health care systems worldwide. This brief report, written from a radiation oncology perspective during the developing outbreak of 2019-nCoV in Switzerland, highlights the challenges identified and measures taken in our department to mitigate risks and ensure continued operations during the outbreak. Elsevier 2020-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7195454/ /pubmed/32363249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2020.03.012 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Recommendations for clinic operations and treatment during COVID19
Papachristofilou, Alexandros
Finazzi, Tobias
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Dott, Christian
Zimmermann, Frank
Contingency Plans in a Radiation Oncology Department Amid the 2019-nCoV Outbreak in Switzerland
title Contingency Plans in a Radiation Oncology Department Amid the 2019-nCoV Outbreak in Switzerland
title_full Contingency Plans in a Radiation Oncology Department Amid the 2019-nCoV Outbreak in Switzerland
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title_short Contingency Plans in a Radiation Oncology Department Amid the 2019-nCoV Outbreak in Switzerland
title_sort contingency plans in a radiation oncology department amid the 2019-ncov outbreak in switzerland
topic Recommendations for clinic operations and treatment during COVID19
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195454/
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