Abstract
Because the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has completely transformed the accepted norms and approaches to cancer care delivery in the United States, we sought to understand the sources of medical information that oncology physicians seek and trust. We recruited 486 oncology physicians to an anonymous cross-sectional online survey through social media from March 27, 2020, to April 10, 2020, with 79.2% reporting their sources of medical information during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found a diverse array of reported sources for COVID-19 information that most commonly included professional societies (90.7%), hospital or institutional communications (88.6%), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (69.9%); however, trust in these sources of information varied widely, with professional societies being the most trusted source. These results highlight the important role that professional societies, hospitals, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention play in ensuring dissemination of consistent, high-quality practice recommendations for oncology physicians.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | pkaa095 |
Journal | JNCI Cancer Spectrum |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 24 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences grant UL1TR002494 as well as the National Cancer Institute P30 Cancer Center Support Grant CA77598.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article