Daily Routine and Access to Care: Initial Patient Reported Experiences at a German Lung Cancer Center during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Julia Walter^{1

2

3}, Laura Sellmer^{4

5}, Kathrin Kahnert^{4

5}, Regine Zauber⁴, Zulfiya Syunyaeva⁴, Diego Kauffmann-Guerrero^{4

5}, Farkhad Manapov^{5

6}, Christian Schneider^{5

7}, Jürgen Behr^{4

5}, Amanda Tufman^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine V, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, Julia.Walter@med.uni-muenchen.de.
² German Center for Lung Research (DZL CPC-M), Gießen, Germany, Julia.Walter@med.uni-muenchen.de.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, Julia.Walter@med.uni-muenchen.de.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine V, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
⁵ German Center for Lung Research (DZL CPC-M), Gießen, Germany.
⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
⁷ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

Julia Walter et al. Respiration. 2021.

. 2021;100(1):90-92.

doi: 10.1159/000513849. Epub 2020 Dec 28.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine V, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, Julia.Walter@med.uni-muenchen.de.
² German Center for Lung Research (DZL CPC-M), Gießen, Germany, Julia.Walter@med.uni-muenchen.de.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, Julia.Walter@med.uni-muenchen.de.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine V, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
⁵ German Center for Lung Research (DZL CPC-M), Gießen, Germany.
⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
⁷ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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