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Home Se-Cure: A Home Care Service for Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cancer patients are exposed to a greater risk of COVID-19 infection, resulting in treatment delays and unnecessary hospitalizations. International authorities have suggested reducing visits to hospitals and guarantee continuity of care. We developed a home care project called Home Se-Cure (HSC) to g...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8535406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34682650 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010913 |
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author | Buttiron Webber, Tania Giuliano, Silvia Patrone, Carlotta Briata, Irene Maria Franconeri, Maria Marceca, Francesca Magnani, Monica Paciolla, Fortuna Provinciali, Nicoletta Defferrari, Carlotta Clavarezza, Matteo D’Amico, Mauro Gozza, Alberto Boitano, Monica Alessio-Mazzola, Mattia Cevasco, Isabella DeCensi, Andrea |
author_facet | Buttiron Webber, Tania Giuliano, Silvia Patrone, Carlotta Briata, Irene Maria Franconeri, Maria Marceca, Francesca Magnani, Monica Paciolla, Fortuna Provinciali, Nicoletta Defferrari, Carlotta Clavarezza, Matteo D’Amico, Mauro Gozza, Alberto Boitano, Monica Alessio-Mazzola, Mattia Cevasco, Isabella DeCensi, Andrea |
author_sort | Buttiron Webber, Tania |
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description | Cancer patients are exposed to a greater risk of COVID-19 infection, resulting in treatment delays and unnecessary hospitalizations. International authorities have suggested reducing visits to hospitals and guarantee continuity of care. We developed a home care project called Home Se-Cure (HSC) to guarantee the continuity of oral, intramuscular, and subcutaneous cancer therapy during COVID-19. The Home Se-Cure project included cancer patients living near Galliera Hospital. Patients received home visits by registered nurses (RNs), whoperformed blood tests and delivered cancer therapies. Patients were instructed to take drugs after blood test results and therapy confirmation by oncologists. Sixty-six patients decided to participate and 38 declined the service. A customer satisfaction questionnaire was administered to a subgroup of patients participating in the project. The most prevalent disease in the HSC group was prostate cancer. The mean age of the patients in HSC was 78.4 years and 68.9 in the decliner group. The majority of the HSC participants appreciated the project because they could stay at home (71%) and reduce the risk of COVID-19 contagion (67.7%). Compared to decliners, the time the study group saved was 2033 hours. HSC guaranteed the continuity of care during the COVID-19 pandemic by reducing the number of patients in the hospital and avoiding crowds in the waiting room. |
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spelling | pubmed-85354062021-10-23 Home Se-Cure: A Home Care Service for Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic Buttiron Webber, Tania Giuliano, Silvia Patrone, Carlotta Briata, Irene Maria Franconeri, Maria Marceca, Francesca Magnani, Monica Paciolla, Fortuna Provinciali, Nicoletta Defferrari, Carlotta Clavarezza, Matteo D’Amico, Mauro Gozza, Alberto Boitano, Monica Alessio-Mazzola, Mattia Cevasco, Isabella DeCensi, Andrea Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Cancer patients are exposed to a greater risk of COVID-19 infection, resulting in treatment delays and unnecessary hospitalizations. International authorities have suggested reducing visits to hospitals and guarantee continuity of care. We developed a home care project called Home Se-Cure (HSC) to guarantee the continuity of oral, intramuscular, and subcutaneous cancer therapy during COVID-19. The Home Se-Cure project included cancer patients living near Galliera Hospital. Patients received home visits by registered nurses (RNs), whoperformed blood tests and delivered cancer therapies. Patients were instructed to take drugs after blood test results and therapy confirmation by oncologists. Sixty-six patients decided to participate and 38 declined the service. A customer satisfaction questionnaire was administered to a subgroup of patients participating in the project. The most prevalent disease in the HSC group was prostate cancer. The mean age of the patients in HSC was 78.4 years and 68.9 in the decliner group. The majority of the HSC participants appreciated the project because they could stay at home (71%) and reduce the risk of COVID-19 contagion (67.7%). Compared to decliners, the time the study group saved was 2033 hours. HSC guaranteed the continuity of care during the COVID-19 pandemic by reducing the number of patients in the hospital and avoiding crowds in the waiting room. MDPI 2021-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8535406/ /pubmed/34682650 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010913 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Buttiron Webber, Tania Giuliano, Silvia Patrone, Carlotta Briata, Irene Maria Franconeri, Maria Marceca, Francesca Magnani, Monica Paciolla, Fortuna Provinciali, Nicoletta Defferrari, Carlotta Clavarezza, Matteo D’Amico, Mauro Gozza, Alberto Boitano, Monica Alessio-Mazzola, Mattia Cevasco, Isabella DeCensi, Andrea Home Se-Cure: A Home Care Service for Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Home Se-Cure: A Home Care Service for Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Home Se-Cure: A Home Care Service for Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Home Se-Cure: A Home Care Service for Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Home Se-Cure: A Home Care Service for Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Home Se-Cure: A Home Care Service for Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | home se-cure: a home care service for cancer patients during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8535406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34682650 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010913 |
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