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ArticleColombia medica (Cali, Colombia)2018

Pediatric oncology services in Colombia.

Amaranto Suarez Mattos, Jairo Aguilera, Edgar Augusto Salguero, Carolina Wiesner

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Article in Colombia medica (Cali, Colombia), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Reliable information for cancer control in Cali, Colombia.Colombia medica (Cali, Colombia) · 2018
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  4. Epidemiology of cancer in Colombia.Colombia medica (Cali, Colombia) · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amaranto Suarez MattosInstituto Nacional de Cancerología, Bogota, Colombia.
Jairo AguileraInstituto Nacional de Cancerología, Bogota, Colombia.
Edgar Augusto SalgueroInstituto Nacional de Cancerología, Bogota, Colombia.
Carolina WiesnerInstituto Nacional de Cancerología, Bogota, Colombia.
Instituto Nacional de Cancerología · CO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In low-income countries, a child diagnosed with cancer has an 80% chance of dying, while in high-income countries more than 80% survive the disease. In Colombia, a middle-income country, the government issued new legislation that promotes the generation of comprehensive care units; nevertheless, seven years after its expedition, no institution has been recognized as such by the Ministry of Health. The objective of this study was to characterize the current offer of oncological services for cancer care in children and to identify the institutions that can be constituted in Units of Comprehensive Care of Childhood Cancer in Colombia.

methodsdescriptive study of secondary source, the Special Register of Health Providers of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection was consulted, in order to identify the institutions that had enabled hospitalization services of medium or high complexity, chemotherapy, specialized consultation, emergencies, oncological surgery, and radiotherapy or nuclear medicine. The information is reported in absolute frequencies.

resultsSeventy one institutions have hematology-oncology consultation, 39 institutions have chemotherapy and hospitalization services of medium or high complexity, and 18 have radiotherapy enabled. Only nine of the institutions include all the services that are necessary for comprehensive care.

conclusionColombia has a sufficient supply of services for the care of children with cancer. Only a minority are in institutions that have the capacity to guarantee the integrality of the attention.

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ChildChild Health ServicesColombiaDelivery of Health CareHumansNeoplasmscancerchildrenColombiacomprehensiveMedical care

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PMID29983469
PMCPMC6018828
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