TY - JOUR
T1 - Sources of Medical Information for Oncology Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - Results From a National Cross-Sectional Survey
AU - Parsons, Helen M
AU - Vogel, Rachel I
AU - Blaes, Anne H
AU - Lou, Emil
AU - Beckwith, Heather
AU - Yuan, Jianling
AU - Ching Hui, Jane Yuet
N1 - © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1093/jncics/pkaa095
DO - 10.1093/jncics/pkaa095
M3 - Article
C2 - 33403321
VL - 4
SP - pkaa095
JO - JNCI cancer spectrum
JF - JNCI cancer spectrum
SN - 2515-5091
IS - 6
ER -