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A COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage
PURPOSE: Symptoms associated with COVID-19 infection have made the assessment and triage of cancer patients extremely complicated. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and implementation of a COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage. METHODS: An Ambulatory Oncology C...
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32856214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05713-5 |
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author | Elkin, Emmika Viele, Carol Schumacher, Karen Boberg, Maureen Cunningham, Mari Liu, Lauren Miaskowski, Christine |
author_facet | Elkin, Emmika Viele, Carol Schumacher, Karen Boberg, Maureen Cunningham, Mari Liu, Lauren Miaskowski, Christine |
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description | PURPOSE: Symptoms associated with COVID-19 infection have made the assessment and triage of cancer patients extremely complicated. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and implementation of a COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage. METHODS: An Ambulatory Oncology Clinical Nurse Educator and three faculty members worked on the development of an oncology specific triage tool based on the challenges that oncology nurses were having with the generic COVID triage tool. A thorough search of the published literature, as well as pertinent websites, verified that no screening tool for oncology patients was available. RESULTS: The screening tool met a number of essential criteria: (1) simple and easy to use, (2) included the most common signs and symptoms as knowledge of COVID-19 infection changed, (3) was congruent with the overall screening procedures of the medical center, (4) included questions about risk factors for and environmental exposures related to COVID-19, and (5) assessed patient’s current cancer history and treatment status. Over a period of 3 weeks, the content and specific questions on the tool were modified based on information obtained from a variety of sources and feedback from the triage nurses. CONCLUSION: Within 1 month, the tool was developed and implemented in clinical practice. Oncology clinicians can modify this tool to triage patients as well as to screen patients in a variety of outpatient settings (e.g., chemotherapy infusion units, radiation therapy departments). The tool will require updates and modifications based on available resources and individual health care organizations’ policies and procedures. |
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spelling | pubmed-74530772020-08-28 A COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage Elkin, Emmika Viele, Carol Schumacher, Karen Boberg, Maureen Cunningham, Mari Liu, Lauren Miaskowski, Christine Support Care Cancer Original Article PURPOSE: Symptoms associated with COVID-19 infection have made the assessment and triage of cancer patients extremely complicated. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and implementation of a COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage. METHODS: An Ambulatory Oncology Clinical Nurse Educator and three faculty members worked on the development of an oncology specific triage tool based on the challenges that oncology nurses were having with the generic COVID triage tool. A thorough search of the published literature, as well as pertinent websites, verified that no screening tool for oncology patients was available. RESULTS: The screening tool met a number of essential criteria: (1) simple and easy to use, (2) included the most common signs and symptoms as knowledge of COVID-19 infection changed, (3) was congruent with the overall screening procedures of the medical center, (4) included questions about risk factors for and environmental exposures related to COVID-19, and (5) assessed patient’s current cancer history and treatment status. Over a period of 3 weeks, the content and specific questions on the tool were modified based on information obtained from a variety of sources and feedback from the triage nurses. CONCLUSION: Within 1 month, the tool was developed and implemented in clinical practice. Oncology clinicians can modify this tool to triage patients as well as to screen patients in a variety of outpatient settings (e.g., chemotherapy infusion units, radiation therapy departments). The tool will require updates and modifications based on available resources and individual health care organizations’ policies and procedures. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-08-28 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7453077/ /pubmed/32856214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05713-5 Text en © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Elkin, Emmika Viele, Carol Schumacher, Karen Boberg, Maureen Cunningham, Mari Liu, Lauren Miaskowski, Christine A COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage |
title | A COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage |
title_full | A COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage |
title_fullStr | A COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage |
title_full_unstemmed | A COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage |
title_short | A COVID-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage |
title_sort | covid-19 screening tool for oncology telephone triage |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32856214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05713-5 |
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