Organisation of cancer care in troubling times: A scoping review of expert guidelines and their implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol
; 173: 103656, 2022 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1814296
ABSTRACT
This scoping review mapped the main themes in existing expert guidelines for cancer care issued during the COVID-19 crisis from the period of March 2020-August 2021. The guidelines published during the research period principally relate to the first two waves in Europe and until the beginning of the vaccination campaign. They elaborated recommendations for cancer care reorganisation, in particular triage and quality of care issues. The article highlights the ethical, epistemological, as well as practical reasons that guidelines were not always followed to provide some lessons learned for future crises to enable better guideline development processes. We also elaborate early evidence on the impact of triage decisions and different perspectives on cancer care reorganisation from ethics and social science literature.
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Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Neoplasms
Type of study:
Observational study
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Reviews
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol
Journal subject:
Hematology
/
Neoplasms
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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