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Impacto de la primera ola de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la atención a pacientes oncológicos en un hospital terciario
BLACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has over-burdened the Spanish health service and, as a result, affected the treatment and management of oncological patients. The aim of this study is to make a descriptive analysis of the management of oncological patients and the functioning of the tumour committ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767796/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35483772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patol.2021.12.001 |
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author | Cruz-Castellanos, Patricia Ortiz-Cruz, Eduardo Sánchez-Méndez, Jose Ignacio Tapia, Mar Morera, Rosa Redondo, Andrés |
author_facet | Cruz-Castellanos, Patricia Ortiz-Cruz, Eduardo Sánchez-Méndez, Jose Ignacio Tapia, Mar Morera, Rosa Redondo, Andrés |
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description | BLACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has over-burdened the Spanish health service and, as a result, affected the treatment and management of oncological patients. The aim of this study is to make a descriptive analysis of the management of oncological patients and the functioning of the tumour committees in the University Hospital La Paz (Madrid) during the first wave of the pandemic. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A descriptive analysis was made, based on the results of a questionnaire given to all 18 adult tumour committees and 3 paediatric tumour committees in the University Hospital La Paz. Further information was obtained from all the hospital services involved in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological patients. RESULTS: During the first wave of the pandemic, there was a significant decrease in diagnostic tests. For many weeks, the majority of oncological surgical procedures were delayed or referred to other hospitals. Highly beneficial systemic and radiotherapeutic treatments were maintained and preoperative treatment was increased. The diagnosis and treatment of paediatric tumours was unaltered. Tumour committees were affected but each one adjusted in a different way. All the departments involved in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological patients made contingency plans to minimalize the effect on patients. CONCLUSION: This study shows how the management of oncological patients and the functioning of tumour committees was affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-87677962022-01-19 Impacto de la primera ola de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la atención a pacientes oncológicos en un hospital terciario Cruz-Castellanos, Patricia Ortiz-Cruz, Eduardo Sánchez-Méndez, Jose Ignacio Tapia, Mar Morera, Rosa Redondo, Andrés Rev Esp Patol Original BLACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has over-burdened the Spanish health service and, as a result, affected the treatment and management of oncological patients. The aim of this study is to make a descriptive analysis of the management of oncological patients and the functioning of the tumour committees in the University Hospital La Paz (Madrid) during the first wave of the pandemic. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A descriptive analysis was made, based on the results of a questionnaire given to all 18 adult tumour committees and 3 paediatric tumour committees in the University Hospital La Paz. Further information was obtained from all the hospital services involved in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological patients. RESULTS: During the first wave of the pandemic, there was a significant decrease in diagnostic tests. For many weeks, the majority of oncological surgical procedures were delayed or referred to other hospitals. Highly beneficial systemic and radiotherapeutic treatments were maintained and preoperative treatment was increased. The diagnosis and treatment of paediatric tumours was unaltered. Tumour committees were affected but each one adjusted in a different way. All the departments involved in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological patients made contingency plans to minimalize the effect on patients. CONCLUSION: This study shows how the management of oncological patients and the functioning of tumour committees was affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. on behalf of Sociedad Española de Anatomía Patológica. 2022 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8767796/ /pubmed/35483772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patol.2021.12.001 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. on behalf of Sociedad Española de Anatomía Patológica. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Original Cruz-Castellanos, Patricia Ortiz-Cruz, Eduardo Sánchez-Méndez, Jose Ignacio Tapia, Mar Morera, Rosa Redondo, Andrés Impacto de la primera ola de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la atención a pacientes oncológicos en un hospital terciario |
title | Impacto de la primera ola de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la atención a pacientes oncológicos en un hospital terciario |
title_full | Impacto de la primera ola de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la atención a pacientes oncológicos en un hospital terciario |
title_fullStr | Impacto de la primera ola de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la atención a pacientes oncológicos en un hospital terciario |
title_full_unstemmed | Impacto de la primera ola de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la atención a pacientes oncológicos en un hospital terciario |
title_short | Impacto de la primera ola de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la atención a pacientes oncológicos en un hospital terciario |
title_sort | impacto de la primera ola de la pandemia de covid-19 en la atención a pacientes oncológicos en un hospital terciario |
topic | Original |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767796/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35483772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patol.2021.12.001 |
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