Examining Cancer Patients' Perceptions of the Impact of COVID-19 on Teleoncology: Findings From 15 Nigerian Outpatient Cancer Clinics.
Adedayo JosephAbdul R ShourNwamaka N LasebikanMutiu A JimohOmobolanle AdegboyegaEmmanuella NwachukwuOpeyemi M AwofesoAzeezat O AjoseAbiola Falilat IbraheemOmolara Aminat FatiregunMusa Ali-GombeUsman M AliyuAbdallah Elsaid KotkatOlusegun Abayomi Biyi-OlutundeEvaristus Oseiwe ObohIsmail H ZubairuMohammad Rifat HaiderBankole OlatosiDavid S PuthoffAdedayo A OnitiloPublished in: JCO global oncology (2023)
COVID-19 caused many patients with cancer in Nigeria to convert visits to a virtual format. These conversions were more common in patients whose surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and injection chemotherapy treatments were canceled or postponed. Our findings suggest how COVID-19 affects cancer treatment services and the importance of collecting teleoncological care data in Nigeria.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- healthcare
- primary care
- locally advanced
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- minimally invasive
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- early stage
- papillary thyroid
- electronic health record
- prognostic factors
- squamous cell carcinoma
- rectal cancer
- pain management
- squamous cell
- ultrasound guided
- affordable care act
- radiation induced
- atrial fibrillation
- acute coronary syndrome
- chemotherapy induced
- lymph node metastasis