TY - JOUR
T1 - The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Multidisciplinary Clinics
T2 - A High-Volume Pancreatic Cancer Center Experience
AU - Javed, Ammar A.
AU - Habib, Joseph R.
AU - Kinny-Köster, Benedict
AU - Hodgin, Mary
AU - Parish, Lindsay
AU - Cunningham, Dea
AU - Hacker-Prietz, Amy
AU - Burkhart, Richard A.
AU - Burns, William R.
AU - Shubert, Christopher R.
AU - Cameron, John L.
AU - Zaheer, Atif
AU - Chu, Linda C.H.
AU - Kawamoto, Satomi
AU - Thompson, Elizabeth D.
AU - Shin, Eun J.
AU - Narang, Amol
AU - Zheng, Lei
AU - Laheru, Daniel A.
AU - Hruban, Ralph H.
AU - He, Jin
AU - Wolfgang, Christopher L.
AU - Fishman, Elliot K.
AU - Lafaro, Kelly
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - The unprecedented impact of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic (COVID-19) has strained the healthcare system worldwide. The impact is even more profound on diseases requiring timely complex multidisciplinary care such as pancreatic cancer. Multidisciplinary care teams have been affected significantly in multiple ways as healthcare teams collectively acclimate to significant space limitations and shortages of personnel and supplies. As a result, many patients are now receiving suboptimal remote imaging for diagnosis, staging, and surgical planning for pancreatic cancer. In addition, the lack of face-to-face interactions between the physician and patient and between multidisciplinary teams has challenged patient safety, research investigations, and house staff education. In this study, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our high-volume pancreatic multidisciplinary clinic, the unique challenges faced, as well as the potential benefits that have arisen out of this situation. We also reflect on its implications for the future during and beyond the pandemic as we anticipate a hybrid model that includes a component of virtual multidisciplinary clinics as a means to provide accessible world-class healthcare for patients who require complex oncologic management.
AB - The unprecedented impact of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic (COVID-19) has strained the healthcare system worldwide. The impact is even more profound on diseases requiring timely complex multidisciplinary care such as pancreatic cancer. Multidisciplinary care teams have been affected significantly in multiple ways as healthcare teams collectively acclimate to significant space limitations and shortages of personnel and supplies. As a result, many patients are now receiving suboptimal remote imaging for diagnosis, staging, and surgical planning for pancreatic cancer. In addition, the lack of face-to-face interactions between the physician and patient and between multidisciplinary teams has challenged patient safety, research investigations, and house staff education. In this study, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our high-volume pancreatic multidisciplinary clinic, the unique challenges faced, as well as the potential benefits that have arisen out of this situation. We also reflect on its implications for the future during and beyond the pandemic as we anticipate a hybrid model that includes a component of virtual multidisciplinary clinics as a means to provide accessible world-class healthcare for patients who require complex oncologic management.
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U2 - 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2022.05.001
DO - 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2022.05.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 35750529
AN - SCOPUS:85132812648
SN - 0363-0188
VL - 51
SP - 675
EP - 679
JO - Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology
JF - Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology
IS - 5
ER -