The Role of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the Interdisciplinary Cancer Team: Implications for Practice
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Bacon, Rachel
Dwyer, Rebecca
Morrison, Kittani S
Toohey, Kellie
O'Dea, Amy
Slade, James
Mortazavi, Reza
Roberts, Cara
Pranavan, Ganes
Cooney, Corrina
Nahon, Irmina
Hayes, Sandra C
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Objective: This literature review aims to explore the role of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic across the interdisciplinary cancer care team. Data Sources: Electronic databases including CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, Scopus, and gray literature were searched using Google Scholar up until September 2020. Conclusion: Although the safe and effective delivery of cancer care via telehealth requires education and training for health care professionals and patients, telehealth has provided a timely solution to the barriers caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the delivery of interdisciplinary cancer services. Globally, evidence has shown that telehealth in cancer care can leverage an innovative response during the COVID-19 pandemic but may provide a long-lasting solution to enable patients to be treated appropriately in their home environment. Telehealth reduces the travel burden on patients for consultation, affords a timely solution to discuss distressing side effects, initiate interventions, and enable possible treatment additions and/or changes. Implications for Nursing Practice: Global public health disasters pose significant and unique challenges to the provision of necessary services for people affected by cancer. Oncology nurses can provide a central contribution in the delivery of telehealth through transformational leadership across all domains and settings in cancer care. Oncology nurses provide the "hub of cancer care" safely embedded in the interdisciplinary team. Telehealth provides a solution to the current global health crisis but could also benefit the future provision of services and broad reach clinical trials.
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Seminars in Oncology Nursing
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Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Health services and systems not elsewhere classified
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Oncology and carcinogenesis
Nursing
COVID-19
Cancer care
Coronavirus
Disaster management
Interdisciplinary
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Paterson, C; Bacon, R; Dwyer, R; Morrison, KS; Toohey, K; O'Dea, A; Slade, J; Mortazavi, R; Roberts, C; Pranavan, G; Cooney, C; Nahon, I; Hayes, SC, The Role of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the Interdisciplinary Cancer Team: Implications for Practice, Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 2020, pp. 151090-