Return-to-School Practices for Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Although organizations such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and American Academy of Pediatrics have published guidelines favoring the resumption of in-person schooling during the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, there is no specific guidance on hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) recipients' safe return to school. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of pediatric HCT physician members of the Pediatric Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Consortium practicing in the United States to describe current return-to-school practices during the COVID-19 pandemic for HCT recipients. A total of 122 respondents (response rate, 30.6%) from 60 transplant centers in 32 US states completed the survey. Most of the respondents (76%) recommended that HCT recipients consider a

SUBMITTER: Bhatt NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8447546 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature