Open AccessSocial Distancing to Avoid SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Cancer and Noncancer Patients
Author(s) -
Goetz Kloecker,
Joseph R. Nolan,
Leslie Korbee,
Royce Calhoun,
Barbara Logan,
Douglas Flora,
Douglas Flora,
Philip Hartman
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of patient safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1549-8425
pISSN - 1549-8417
DOI - 10.1097/pts.0000000000001058
Subject(s) - social distance , medicine , anxiety , cancer , demographics , social isolation , covid-19 , distancing , incidence (geometry) , disease , family medicine , psychiatry , demography , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , optics , sociology
Social distancing has been recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to avoid exposure to SARS-CoV-2 ( Epidemiol Prev 2020;44:353-362).Cancer patients on or after active therapy seem to be more prone to COVID being symptomatic and life-threatening. When evaluating cancer patients' risk of acquiring COVID, it is essential to know the behavior of cancer patients that will affect their risk of exposure. However, it is not known to what degree social distancing is practiced by cancer patients compared with noncancer patients and what factors lead to the decision to distance oneself.