Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on practice in European radiation oncology centers()

ESTRO surveyed European radiation oncology department heads to evaluate the impact of COVID-19. Telemedicine was used in 78% of the departments, and 60% reported a decline in patient volume. Use of protective measures was implemented on a large scale, but shortages of personal protective equipment w...

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Autores principales: Slotman, Berend J., Lievens, Yolande, Poortmans, Philip, Cremades, Valerie, Eichler, Thomas, Wakefield, Daniel Victor, Ricardi, Umberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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COVID-19 Rapid Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7292946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32544604
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2020.06.007
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author Slotman, Berend J.
Lievens, Yolande
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Cremades, Valerie
Eichler, Thomas
Wakefield, Daniel Victor
Ricardi, Umberto
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description ESTRO surveyed European radiation oncology department heads to evaluate the impact of COVID-19. Telemedicine was used in 78% of the departments, and 60% reported a decline in patient volume. Use of protective measures was implemented on a large scale, but shortages of personal protective equipment were present in more than half of the departments.
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spelling pubmed-72929462020-06-14 Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on practice in European radiation oncology centers() Slotman, Berend J. Lievens, Yolande Poortmans, Philip Cremades, Valerie Eichler, Thomas Wakefield, Daniel Victor Ricardi, Umberto Radiother Oncol COVID-19 Rapid Letter ESTRO surveyed European radiation oncology department heads to evaluate the impact of COVID-19. Telemedicine was used in 78% of the departments, and 60% reported a decline in patient volume. Use of protective measures was implemented on a large scale, but shortages of personal protective equipment were present in more than half of the departments. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-09 2020-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7292946/ /pubmed/32544604 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2020.06.007 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) 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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