PRO platform, a useful tool to improve monitoring and effective management of Covid-19 cancer patients
Cet article présente l’outil de télémédecine (application web et plateforme téléphonique) utilisé par l’Institut Gustave Roussy pour améliorer le suivi et la prise en charge des patients atteints d’un cancer pendant la période de crise liée au COVID-19
A central strategy for health care surge control would be to provide remote effective monitoring of Covid-19 patients and their follow-up. Telemedicine allows patients not only to be carefully screened, but also enabling a patient-centered system as well as being conducive to self-quarantine. Also patients, clinicians, and the community are protected from exposure .Patients with cancer during or after treatment, have an increased risk of complication and death related to Covid-19 contagion. In this report, physicians in Gustave Roussy Center Institute (GR), France, a leading European tertiary cancer center, describe the use of telemedicine for monitoring and optimizing referral of Covid-19 cancer patients. The CAPRI telemedicine program has been set-up to monitor cancer patients undergoing oral therapy (4) (Figure 1). Faced with the Covid-19 crisis, we adapted the system accordingly in a period of two weeks, also drawing inspiration from another program.(…)
European Journal of Cancer , résumé, 2019