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cord-256166-4pvk3fqn	Indini, Alice	Reorganization of Medical Oncology Departments during COVID-19 Pandemic: a Nationwide Italian Survey	2020-04-06		.txt	text/plain	2438	119	45	Results show that the following measures for oncologic patients have been promptly implemented through the whole country: use of protective devices, triage of patients accessing the hospital, delay of non-urgent visits, and use of telemedicine. Such emergency has led Italian oncologists to join forces, with the aim to find a way not to compromise the continuum of care of patients and to preserve safe everyday clinical Here we present the results of this survey, providing an overview of COVID-19 epidemic in Italy and assessing potential interventions to overcome this critical situation. Answers to the questions in Section 2 clearly show that, even if by the time of the survey COVID-19 represented an emergency mainly in the North of Italy, diagnostic measures for all patients accessing oncologic services were immediately activated in the whole country ( Table 3) . After the very first reports of COVID-19 in Italy, measures to reduce hospital accesses for oncologic patients were taken almost throughout the country.	./cache/cord-256166-4pvk3fqn.txt	./txt/cord-256166-4pvk3fqn.txt