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Collaboration between an NHS University Teaching Hospital and independent hospital to maintain CT colonography service provision during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Our trust performed CTCs at 93% of the capacity of the previous year, scanning 1265 patients in 2020, compared with 1348 in 2019. We describe the changes made to our service to achieve this, which included collaboration with the colorectal surgical team to prioritise existing CTC patients according...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34877455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjro.20210025 |
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author | Holland, Paul De Abreu, Deborah Higashi, Yutaro Clarke, Christopher GD |
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description | Our trust performed CTCs at 93% of the capacity of the previous year, scanning 1265 patients in 2020, compared with 1348 in 2019. We describe the changes made to our service to achieve this, which included collaboration with the colorectal surgical team to prioritise existing CTC patients according to faecal-immunochemical tests and full blood count results, and the associated challenges which included image transfer delays and patient attendance for scans. Furthermore, the endoscopy and radiology services used the opportunity created by co-location at the same hospital site to provide a same day incomplete colonoscopy and staging service for optically confirmed cancers. Collaboration between the NHS and independent sector allowed us to achieve continuity of service provision during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic without substituting unprepared CT abdomen and pelvis instead of the more sensitive CTC. |
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spelling | pubmed-86116832021-12-06 Collaboration between an NHS University Teaching Hospital and independent hospital to maintain CT colonography service provision during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic Holland, Paul De Abreu, Deborah Higashi, Yutaro Clarke, Christopher GD BJR Open Practice and Policy Our trust performed CTCs at 93% of the capacity of the previous year, scanning 1265 patients in 2020, compared with 1348 in 2019. We describe the changes made to our service to achieve this, which included collaboration with the colorectal surgical team to prioritise existing CTC patients according to faecal-immunochemical tests and full blood count results, and the associated challenges which included image transfer delays and patient attendance for scans. Furthermore, the endoscopy and radiology services used the opportunity created by co-location at the same hospital site to provide a same day incomplete colonoscopy and staging service for optically confirmed cancers. Collaboration between the NHS and independent sector allowed us to achieve continuity of service provision during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic without substituting unprepared CT abdomen and pelvis instead of the more sensitive CTC. The British Institute of Radiology. 2022-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8611683/ /pubmed/34877455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjro.20210025 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Practice and Policy Holland, Paul De Abreu, Deborah Higashi, Yutaro Clarke, Christopher GD Collaboration between an NHS University Teaching Hospital and independent hospital to maintain CT colonography service provision during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Collaboration between an NHS University Teaching Hospital and
independent hospital to maintain CT colonography service provision during the
2020 COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Collaboration between an NHS University Teaching Hospital and
independent hospital to maintain CT colonography service provision during the
2020 COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Collaboration between an NHS University Teaching Hospital and
independent hospital to maintain CT colonography service provision during the
2020 COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Collaboration between an NHS University Teaching Hospital and
independent hospital to maintain CT colonography service provision during the
2020 COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Collaboration between an NHS University Teaching Hospital and
independent hospital to maintain CT colonography service provision during the
2020 COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | collaboration between an nhs university teaching hospital and
independent hospital to maintain ct colonography service provision during the
2020 covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Practice and Policy |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34877455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjro.20210025 |
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