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Background: Because of their vulnerability, cancer patients were exposed to viral infections and especially by the spread of the COVID-19, the coronavirus pandemic. According to published scientific data, the coronavirus was spread by sneezing, coughing, or the contact of the eyes, nose, and mouth through contaminated spaces. For these reasons, the oncology center's staff needs more protection and more precaution. A multidisciplinary hospital team was assembled to define critical failures linked to cancer patient process in hospital and proposed different actions to secure them and improve this process. Methods: According to a risk management tool (Failures Modes Effect and Criticality Analysis), the cancer patient process was mapped in many steps. During the videoconference brainstorming, many ideas were expressed and were classified into an Ishikawa diagram. The criticality indices were calculated from the severity, the occurrence, and the detection probability. Results: The cancer patient process has been described;20 failures have been identified with 8029 points of the sum of critical indices. The new organization of the cancer patient process, the program of training of administrative staff and security agents of hospitals, wearing the protective resources were reduced to the criticality index of 6615 points, a mean of factor reduction of 1291, and the standard deviation was 5007.75. Conclusion: Modification of cancer patient process in oncology center resulted in an important risk reduction as shown by risk analysis. Our study illustrates the usefulness of risk analysis methods in the healthcare system. A systematic use of risk analysis was needed to improve the safety of high-risk activities in healthcare processes. © 2020 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NCND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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The study investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on business activities and lifestyle in Egypt. The studyused daily and monthly average data from 15 February 2020 to 19 January 2021. The study found the correlationbetween workplaces mobility rate and residential mobility (staying at home) rate during the Covid-19 pandemic inEgypt;77.1% of residential mobility (staying at home) reasons back to workplaces mobility rates. on another side;the difference between aspects of lifestyle (retail-recreation;grocery pharmacy;Parks;transit stations;Workplaces;Residential) at the National Level;and the difference of workplaces mobility rates between Egyptian governorates;both are significant at 1%.Finally;some business activity types have an impact on workplaces mobility rates underCovid-19, these business activities related to manufacturing and foreign tourism are significant at 1%. On the otherhand, the study didn't find this impact on Agriculture, Fishing, Domestic Tourism, and Mining. There is still a need for more future studies for both business activities and lifestyle,especially within the second wave of COVID-19. © 2021 Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad. All rights reserved.
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In the late of 2019, unfamiliar cases of pneumonia were announced in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China that resulted in high mortality rates of 2%. Shortly, these cases were reported to be brought about by a novel type of coronaviruses named as novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV- 2). The disease caused by this novel virus is designated as coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Instantly afterwards, this disease exhibited an extreme spreading rate and the infection has geographically shifted to affect the whole world including the Middle East countries involving Egypt. Thus, it is not surprising that a lot of reports and literature have been directed to provide information and describe the clinical features of this pandemic. In this report, we describe in details the characteristic features of COVID-19 pandemic with attention to the management and control in Egypt. Characters of the virus, mode of transmission, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are fully described.