Beware of Time Delay and Differential Diagnosis when Screening for Symptoms of COVID-19 in Surgical Cancer Patients

We read with interest the original paper by Forrester and colleagues1 and would like to congratulate the authors on producing an operational algorithm for operating room team members' protection. At the National Institute of Oncology of Rabat, we share the same guiding principles for team safety. However, we would like to draw attention to time-delay risk on screening symptoms for novel coronavirus (COVID-19), especially in cancer patients.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Letter Source Type: research