Continuing cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York: experience from a public teaching hospital

INTRODUCTION: We report our experience with cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of the patients treated from the 1(st) of March, 2020 to the 8(th) of May, 2020. RESULTS: Team huddles, infection screening and patient selection st...

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Autores principales: Pathak, Surabhi, Narurkar, Roshni, Khan, Mohammed Hasan, Jiang, Bei, Soe, May Nyein Chann, Hwang, Caroline, Muppidi, Monica, Aronow, Wilbert S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2021
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8314406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34336039
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms/136299
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author Pathak, Surabhi
Narurkar, Roshni
Khan, Mohammed Hasan
Jiang, Bei
Soe, May Nyein Chann
Hwang, Caroline
Muppidi, Monica
Aronow, Wilbert S.
author_facet Pathak, Surabhi
Narurkar, Roshni
Khan, Mohammed Hasan
Jiang, Bei
Soe, May Nyein Chann
Hwang, Caroline
Muppidi, Monica
Aronow, Wilbert S.
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description INTRODUCTION: We report our experience with cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of the patients treated from the 1(st) of March, 2020 to the 8(th) of May, 2020. RESULTS: Team huddles, infection screening and patient selection strategies were implemented. One hundred and seventy patients were treated in 576 visits. Six developed severe COVID-19 requiring hospitalization, two died. Their median Charlson Comorbidity Index was 9, higher than the rest of the cohort. CONCLUSIONS: Cancer care delivery is safe and feasible using an approach focused on careful patient selection, team communication and infection control.
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spelling pubmed-83144062021-07-31 Continuing cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York: experience from a public teaching hospital Pathak, Surabhi Narurkar, Roshni Khan, Mohammed Hasan Jiang, Bei Soe, May Nyein Chann Hwang, Caroline Muppidi, Monica Aronow, Wilbert S. Arch Med Sci Research Letter INTRODUCTION: We report our experience with cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of the patients treated from the 1(st) of March, 2020 to the 8(th) of May, 2020. RESULTS: Team huddles, infection screening and patient selection strategies were implemented. One hundred and seventy patients were treated in 576 visits. Six developed severe COVID-19 requiring hospitalization, two died. Their median Charlson Comorbidity Index was 9, higher than the rest of the cohort. CONCLUSIONS: Cancer care delivery is safe and feasible using an approach focused on careful patient selection, team communication and infection control. Termedia Publishing House 2021-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8314406/ /pubmed/34336039 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms/136299 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Termedia & Banach https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
spellingShingle Research Letter
Pathak, Surabhi
Narurkar, Roshni
Khan, Mohammed Hasan
Jiang, Bei
Soe, May Nyein Chann
Hwang, Caroline
Muppidi, Monica
Aronow, Wilbert S.
Continuing cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York: experience from a public teaching hospital
title Continuing cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York: experience from a public teaching hospital
title_full Continuing cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York: experience from a public teaching hospital
title_fullStr Continuing cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York: experience from a public teaching hospital
title_full_unstemmed Continuing cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York: experience from a public teaching hospital
title_short Continuing cancer care delivery during the peak of COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York: experience from a public teaching hospital
title_sort continuing cancer care delivery during the peak of covid-19 in the bronx, new york: experience from a public teaching hospital
topic Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8314406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34336039
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms/136299
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