COVID19 in hematological patients and telemedicine: Lessons learned across Europe and the US Review
| Authors: | Mussetti, A.; Peric, Z.; Figueroa, C. |
| Review Title: | COVID19 in hematological patients and telemedicine: Lessons learned across Europe and the US |
| Abstract: | PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To describe the state-of-the-art of telemedicine in hematology through the description of most relevant studies published in the pre-COVID19 and during the COVID19 era. RECENT FINDINGS: Telemedicine has recently gained momentum in hematology due to the COVID19 pandemic. Due to a necessary improvement of domiciliary follow-up of patients during the pandemic and an increase in technologies able to offer telemedicine, the number of studies has increased in the last 2 years. Telemedicine showed the potential to improve the monitoring of both benign and malignant hematological diseases. Patients affected by thalassemias, hemophilias and/or myeloproliferative diseases were monitored successfully with telemedicine platform. For higher-risk patients such as high-dose chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation, better platforms are needed (e.g. use of wearable devices systems). Also, telemedicine showed to be useful for the follow-up of hematological patients with COVID19. SUMMARY: Despite the clear potential advantages of telemedicine for the follow-up of hematological patients, more evidence is required before adopting this approach in larger cohorts of patients. Larger- and higher-quality studies are highly needed in this setting. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. |
| Keywords: | europe; epidemiology; telemedicine; pandemic; humans; human; pandemics; covid-19 |
| Journal Title: | Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| ISSN: | 0951-7375 |
| Publisher: | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
| Date Published: | 2022-08-01 |
| Start Page: | 295 |
| End Page: | 301 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1097/qco.0000000000000843 |
| PUBMED: | 35849519 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | Review -- Export Date: 1 August 2022 -- Source: Scopus |
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