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Experience of Palliative Care Services at Tertiary Comprehensive Cancer Center during COVID-19 Lockdown Phase: An Analytical Original Study

BACKGROUND: Recent pandemic Coronavirus disease 2019 has brought the whole world to a standstill. In India too, phases of the lockdown of the country were declared. This hampered the availability of essential health-care services to needy patients. With full emphasis on the pandemic, patients suffer...

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Autores principales: Singh, Manisha, Sanghavi, Priti, Patel, Bhavna, Umrania, Ravi, Chishi, Kikato, Ghoghari, Mayur
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088082
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_132_20
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author Singh, Manisha
Sanghavi, Priti
Patel, Bhavna
Umrania, Ravi
Chishi, Kikato
Ghoghari, Mayur
author_facet Singh, Manisha
Sanghavi, Priti
Patel, Bhavna
Umrania, Ravi
Chishi, Kikato
Ghoghari, Mayur
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description BACKGROUND: Recent pandemic Coronavirus disease 2019 has brought the whole world to a standstill. In India too, phases of the lockdown of the country were declared. This hampered the availability of essential health-care services to needy patients. With full emphasis on the pandemic, patients suffering from other diseases and palliative oncology patients requiring essential palliative care services were affected due to the shutting down of regular health-care services. AIM: In this study, we emphasize that in the middle of a pandemic, we need to continue serving the needs of palliative care patients, and simultaneously, necessary steps should be taken for the prevention of the spread of virus by following guidelines, training, support, and monitoring. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, we analyzed electronic medical record of 1161 patients who received palliative care from our institute in the first two lockdown periods, regarding their demographics, extent of travel, type of malignancy, and opioid utilization. RESULTS: Of 1161 patients, male outnumbered female and the patient suffering from head-and-neck malignancy were in the maximum number (48.7%). Our essential opioids utilization rate was 34.2%, and patients who traveled from different states were 21.6%. CONCLUSION: During this pandemic, we cannot overlook the need for essential palliative care services. We can continue regular services with proper precautions as advised and by training the staff. Collaboration with different palliative centers across the country should be done to minimize patient movement.
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spelling pubmed-75349782020-10-20 Experience of Palliative Care Services at Tertiary Comprehensive Cancer Center during COVID-19 Lockdown Phase: An Analytical Original Study Singh, Manisha Sanghavi, Priti Patel, Bhavna Umrania, Ravi Chishi, Kikato Ghoghari, Mayur Indian J Palliat Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Recent pandemic Coronavirus disease 2019 has brought the whole world to a standstill. In India too, phases of the lockdown of the country were declared. This hampered the availability of essential health-care services to needy patients. With full emphasis on the pandemic, patients suffering from other diseases and palliative oncology patients requiring essential palliative care services were affected due to the shutting down of regular health-care services. AIM: In this study, we emphasize that in the middle of a pandemic, we need to continue serving the needs of palliative care patients, and simultaneously, necessary steps should be taken for the prevention of the spread of virus by following guidelines, training, support, and monitoring. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, we analyzed electronic medical record of 1161 patients who received palliative care from our institute in the first two lockdown periods, regarding their demographics, extent of travel, type of malignancy, and opioid utilization. RESULTS: Of 1161 patients, male outnumbered female and the patient suffering from head-and-neck malignancy were in the maximum number (48.7%). Our essential opioids utilization rate was 34.2%, and patients who traveled from different states were 21.6%. CONCLUSION: During this pandemic, we cannot overlook the need for essential palliative care services. We can continue regular services with proper precautions as advised and by training the staff. Collaboration with different palliative centers across the country should be done to minimize patient movement. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-06 2020-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7534978/ /pubmed/33088082 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_132_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Singh, Manisha
Sanghavi, Priti
Patel, Bhavna
Umrania, Ravi
Chishi, Kikato
Ghoghari, Mayur
Experience of Palliative Care Services at Tertiary Comprehensive Cancer Center during COVID-19 Lockdown Phase: An Analytical Original Study
title Experience of Palliative Care Services at Tertiary Comprehensive Cancer Center during COVID-19 Lockdown Phase: An Analytical Original Study
title_full Experience of Palliative Care Services at Tertiary Comprehensive Cancer Center during COVID-19 Lockdown Phase: An Analytical Original Study
title_fullStr Experience of Palliative Care Services at Tertiary Comprehensive Cancer Center during COVID-19 Lockdown Phase: An Analytical Original Study
title_full_unstemmed Experience of Palliative Care Services at Tertiary Comprehensive Cancer Center during COVID-19 Lockdown Phase: An Analytical Original Study
title_short Experience of Palliative Care Services at Tertiary Comprehensive Cancer Center during COVID-19 Lockdown Phase: An Analytical Original Study
title_sort experience of palliative care services at tertiary comprehensive cancer center during covid-19 lockdown phase: an analytical original study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088082
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_132_20
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