1. Successful management plan of COVID-19 in a pediatric hemato-oncology department: a single-centre experience
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Rosanna Parasole, Annalisa Granata, Antonia De Matteo, Immacolata Ricciardi, Pio Stellato, Lucia Quaglietta, Ornella Leone, Giuseppe Menna, Matteo Paparo, Nicola Silvestri, Carlo Capelli, and Francesco Paolo Tambaro
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Cross infection ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,medicine.medical_specialty ,data collection ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,business.industry ,Original Research Letter ,Health services research ,Pediatrics ,RJ1-570 ,health services research ,Single centre ,Paediatric cancer ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Pandemic ,Epidemiology ,Emergency medicine ,Medicine ,epidemiology ,Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health ,business - Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic raised concern about management of patients with paediatric cancer. We present the operating system that the Hemato-Oncology Department of the Santobono-Pausilipon Hospital applied. We divided our department in three zones: surveillance and screening; quarantine and COVID free, in order to screen admitted patients and to reduce the risk of cross infection. From 3 April until 29 May 2020 (56 days), 662 patients and caregivers underwent rapid serological tests for a total of 1397 assays. No patient or parent with SARS-CoV2 infection was found, demonstrating the effectiveness of COVID-19 screening process.
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- 2020