Head and Neck Oncology Practice Guidelines During COVID-19 and SARS Pandemics

A paper outlines evolving practices for head and neck surgical oncologists during the COVID-19 pandemic. It combines experiences from Wuhan University and the University of Toronto during the SARS outbreak in 2003. The author, Antoine Eskander MD ScM from Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, provides key practical considerations for maintaining oncology services.

Use Cases

• Developing clinical practice guidelines based on combined pandemic experiences from Wuhan and Toronto
• Training healthcare staff on operationalizing oncology service recommendations during a pandemic
• Analyzing the adaptation of surgical oncology workflows based on challenges described in the paper

Strengths

• Authored by a medical doctor (Antoine Eskander MD ScM) from a recognized health science centre
• Combines direct clinical experiences from two major pandemic events (COVID-19 and SARS)

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

Collection Method

Clinical experience synthesis

Time Range

Pandemic periods (COVID-19 and 2003 SARS)

Geography

Wuhan, China and Toronto, Canada