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Reactions and countermeasures of medical oncologists towards the incoming COVID-19 pandemic: a WhatsApp messenger-based report from the Italian College of Chief Medical Oncologists
BACKGROUND: This descriptive, unplanned investigation has been undertaken to report reactions, attitudes and countermeasures which have been put in place and implemented by medical oncology units facing the COVID-19 outbreak in Southern Italy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data have been retrospectively ob...
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Cancer Intelligence
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7289620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32565899 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1046 |
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author | Blasi, Livio Bordonaro, Roberto Borsellino, Nicolò Butera, Alfredo Caruso, Michele Cordio, Stefano Liborio, Di Cristina Ferraù, Francesco Giuffrida, Dario Parra, Hector Soto Spada, Massimiliano Tralongo, Paolo Valenza, Roberto Verderame, Francesco Vitello, Stefano Zerilli, Filippo Piazza, Dario Firenze, Alberto Gebbia, Vittorio |
author_facet | Blasi, Livio Bordonaro, Roberto Borsellino, Nicolò Butera, Alfredo Caruso, Michele Cordio, Stefano Liborio, Di Cristina Ferraù, Francesco Giuffrida, Dario Parra, Hector Soto Spada, Massimiliano Tralongo, Paolo Valenza, Roberto Verderame, Francesco Vitello, Stefano Zerilli, Filippo Piazza, Dario Firenze, Alberto Gebbia, Vittorio |
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description | BACKGROUND: This descriptive, unplanned investigation has been undertaken to report reactions, attitudes and countermeasures which have been put in place and implemented by medical oncology units facing the COVID-19 outbreak in Southern Italy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data have been retrospectively obtained from the time-related analysis of conversations via a WhatsApp messenger-based group chat between the medical directors belonging to the Italian College of Medical Oncology Directors. Overall number, intensity and time trend of conversations related to reactions during the 4 weeks of observation related to the crucial events which occurred between 24 February and 28 March, 2020 2020 are included. A sentiment analysis of conversations was also carried out. RESULTS: We report 956 conversations among 19 medical oncology units related to reactions to the crucial events, such as epidemic spread, Government ordinances and guidelines during the 4 weeks of observation. Data show significant awareness of problems linked to the COVID-19 spread among oncologists and rapid diffusion of countermeasures. Actions taken were correlated time wise to crucial events. A correlation between conversations and the volume of activity of oncology units was found. By analysing the sentiment analysis of raw data, positive emotions were reduced in percentage over the weeks. A significant increase in negative emotions was observed as the outbreak impacted on the healthcare system. CONCLUSION: In our experience, the WhatsApp instant-messaging system seems to be a useful tool to share news and reactions between medical oncologists to rapidly implement necessary health measures and answers to most cancer patients’ needs and queries in the COVID-19 pandemic scenario. |
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spelling | pubmed-72896202020-06-19 Reactions and countermeasures of medical oncologists towards the incoming COVID-19 pandemic: a WhatsApp messenger-based report from the Italian College of Chief Medical Oncologists Blasi, Livio Bordonaro, Roberto Borsellino, Nicolò Butera, Alfredo Caruso, Michele Cordio, Stefano Liborio, Di Cristina Ferraù, Francesco Giuffrida, Dario Parra, Hector Soto Spada, Massimiliano Tralongo, Paolo Valenza, Roberto Verderame, Francesco Vitello, Stefano Zerilli, Filippo Piazza, Dario Firenze, Alberto Gebbia, Vittorio Ecancermedicalscience Research BACKGROUND: This descriptive, unplanned investigation has been undertaken to report reactions, attitudes and countermeasures which have been put in place and implemented by medical oncology units facing the COVID-19 outbreak in Southern Italy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data have been retrospectively obtained from the time-related analysis of conversations via a WhatsApp messenger-based group chat between the medical directors belonging to the Italian College of Medical Oncology Directors. Overall number, intensity and time trend of conversations related to reactions during the 4 weeks of observation related to the crucial events which occurred between 24 February and 28 March, 2020 2020 are included. A sentiment analysis of conversations was also carried out. RESULTS: We report 956 conversations among 19 medical oncology units related to reactions to the crucial events, such as epidemic spread, Government ordinances and guidelines during the 4 weeks of observation. Data show significant awareness of problems linked to the COVID-19 spread among oncologists and rapid diffusion of countermeasures. Actions taken were correlated time wise to crucial events. A correlation between conversations and the volume of activity of oncology units was found. By analysing the sentiment analysis of raw data, positive emotions were reduced in percentage over the weeks. A significant increase in negative emotions was observed as the outbreak impacted on the healthcare system. CONCLUSION: In our experience, the WhatsApp instant-messaging system seems to be a useful tool to share news and reactions between medical oncologists to rapidly implement necessary health measures and answers to most cancer patients’ needs and queries in the COVID-19 pandemic scenario. Cancer Intelligence 2020-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7289620/ /pubmed/32565899 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1046 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Blasi, Livio Bordonaro, Roberto Borsellino, Nicolò Butera, Alfredo Caruso, Michele Cordio, Stefano Liborio, Di Cristina Ferraù, Francesco Giuffrida, Dario Parra, Hector Soto Spada, Massimiliano Tralongo, Paolo Valenza, Roberto Verderame, Francesco Vitello, Stefano Zerilli, Filippo Piazza, Dario Firenze, Alberto Gebbia, Vittorio Reactions and countermeasures of medical oncologists towards the incoming COVID-19 pandemic: a WhatsApp messenger-based report from the Italian College of Chief Medical Oncologists |
title | Reactions and countermeasures of medical oncologists towards the incoming COVID-19 pandemic: a WhatsApp messenger-based report from the Italian College of Chief Medical Oncologists |
title_full | Reactions and countermeasures of medical oncologists towards the incoming COVID-19 pandemic: a WhatsApp messenger-based report from the Italian College of Chief Medical Oncologists |
title_fullStr | Reactions and countermeasures of medical oncologists towards the incoming COVID-19 pandemic: a WhatsApp messenger-based report from the Italian College of Chief Medical Oncologists |
title_full_unstemmed | Reactions and countermeasures of medical oncologists towards the incoming COVID-19 pandemic: a WhatsApp messenger-based report from the Italian College of Chief Medical Oncologists |
title_short | Reactions and countermeasures of medical oncologists towards the incoming COVID-19 pandemic: a WhatsApp messenger-based report from the Italian College of Chief Medical Oncologists |
title_sort | reactions and countermeasures of medical oncologists towards the incoming covid-19 pandemic: a whatsapp messenger-based report from the italian college of chief medical oncologists |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7289620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32565899 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1046 |
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