Research Article | Open Access
TELEMEDICINE IN THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC: SCOPE OF CARE IN ONCOLOGY PATIENTS. A REVIEW OF THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE
Lourdes Maita-Cruz,Rossana Teresa Veramendi Vemazza,Evangelina Rita Ramos Callata,Yoni Maita-Cruz,Juan Carlos Cotrina-Aliaga
Pages: 3189-3192
Abstract
Objective: This review aims to see to what extent the practice of telemedicine in the COVID-19 pandemic assists in the care of patients in the specialty of oncology. Methods: The review was carried out through an electronic search of articles related to telemedicine and oncology in databases such as: Web of
Science, Scielo and Pubmed. The search terms were: Telemedicine, COVID-19 and oncology. For this review, our inclusion criteria are based on selecting articles published with research results from 2019 tothe present, no language, type, or study design restrictions were applied, and our exclusion criteria were on those articles that did not state an author. o Digital Object Identifier System (DOI), with the exception of World Health Organization (WHO) publications
Keywords
telemedicine, COVID-19, oncology, patient