The COVID-19 pandemic - from great challenge to unique opportunity: Perspective

COVID-19 CoV, Coronavirus Infectious disease SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV-2 SDM, Shared decision making Shared decision making WHO, World Health Organization

Journal

Annals of medicine and surgery (2012)
ISSN: 2049-0801
Titre abrégé: Ann Med Surg (Lond)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101616869

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Nov 2020
Historique:
received: 19 08 2020
accepted: 23 08 2020
pubmed: 10 9 2020
medline: 10 9 2020
entrez: 9 9 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes - coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have rapidly swept across the world since the first known human manifestation on December 8, 2019 in Wuhan (Hubei Province, China)1,2. The epidemic of the COVID-19 has presented as a grim and complex situation, causing great impact on economy and society, and seriously interfering with ordinary medical practice, threatening to exceed healthcare capacity in many countries over the globe. With no doubt, dealing with the COVID-19 has caused great social and medical crisis that presented great challenges to the medical and healthcare society, forcing it to face unprecedented times, and to reconceptualize how to provide quality health care while enforcing public health measures necessary for pandemic containment and optimal allocation of healthcare resources. However, along with this unparalleled time challenges, came great opportunities for changes and improvements, for innovations and creative solutions, some of which should be adopted and incorporated to the daily medical practices and social routine, even in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32904485
doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2020.08.037
pii: S2049-0801(20)30284-3
pmc: PMC7455173
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

68-71

Informations de copyright

© 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have no financial conflicts of interest relevant to this article to disclose.

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Auteurs

Irit Duek (I)

Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Dan M Fliss (DM)

Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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