To understand and analyse the global impact of COVID-19 on outpatient services, inpatient care, elective surgery, and perioperative colorectal cancer care, a DElayed COloRectal cancer surgery (DECOR-19) survey was conducted in collaboration with numerous international colorectal societies with the objective of obtaining several learning points from the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on our colorectal cancer patients which will assist us in the ongoing management of our colorectal cancer patients and to provide us safe oncological pathways for future outbreaks.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1,051
International E-survey
Treviso Regional Hospital
Treviso, Italy
Predictive power of respondents' and hospitals' demographics on delaying colorectal cancer care across 6 geographical regions
Respondents' and hospitals' demographics include: gender, country of origin, type of hospital (i.e. academic or not), type of unit (general surgery vs. colorectal), no. hospital beds, no. yearly surgeries for colon and rectal cancer, hospital preparedness to the emergency (i.e. fully or partially dedicated or not involved in COVID-19 care), readily availability of external facilities for colorectal cancer surgery, cancer care coordinator, personal protective equipment, status of elective surgery, no. elective colorectal cancer patients needing urgent surgery, any change in the original management plan, no. colorectal cancer patients refusing surgery or being COVID-19 + on surgery or becoming COVID-19 + post-operatively, no. staff members quarantined or relocated in COVID-19 units, MDT meeting suspension, any delay in endoscopy, radiology, oncology, surgery, histopathology.
Time frame: 20 days
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