COVID-19 pandemic and uro-oncology follow-up: A "virtual" multidisciplinary team strategy and patients' satisfaction assessment.
Aftercare
/ methods
Appointments and Schedules
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections
/ prevention & control
Elective Surgical Procedures
Female
Humans
Male
Medicine
Office Visits
Oncology Nursing
Pandemics
/ prevention & control
Patient Care Team
Patient Satisfaction
Pneumonia, Viral
/ prevention & control
SARS-CoV-2
Telemedicine
/ methods
Telephone
Urogenital Neoplasms
/ psychology
Urologic Surgical Procedures
Urology
/ methods
Journal
Archivio italiano di urologia, andrologia : organo ufficiale [di] Societa italiana di ecografia urologica e nefrologica
ISSN: 2282-4197
Titre abrégé: Arch Ital Urol Androl
Pays: Italy
ID NLM: 9308247
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
23 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020
Historique:
received:
24
04
2020
accepted:
28
04
2020
entrez:
30
6
2020
pubmed:
1
7
2020
medline:
4
7
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
COVID-19 pandemic strongly modified the organizations of our clinical practice. Strict containment measures have been adopted to limit the disease diffusion. In particular, hospital face-to-face post discharge and follow up visits have been reduced. Although cancelling or deferring appointments seems to be a pragmatic approach, this solution may have a devasting long-term impact on health medical care and on patients. In this context, telemedicine and remote consultations may have the potential to provide healthcare minimizing virus exposure. In this paper we describe how Multidisciplinary team (MDT) reorganized genitourinary cancer care delivery at our Institute (AO SS Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo, Alessandria), taking advantage of telematic means. Furthermore, we present our preliminary results regarding patients' satisfaction.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32597103
doi: 10.4081/aiua.2020.2.78
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM