Clinical and economic strategies in outpatient medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Provenzano, David; Sitzman, B. Todd; Florentino, Samuel Ambrose; Buterbaugh, Glenn A.

doi:10.1136/rapm-2020-101640

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“…The nature of the COVID disease and the potential to spread infection rapidly necessitated the need for early adoption of telemedicine. Reports suggest that telemedicine has been of great value for treating chronic pain in terms of patient satisfaction, comfort, eliminating the stress and inconvenience due to need of transport, affordable and improved specialist care access, reduced costs, and wait times [ [45] , [46] , [47] , [48] ].…”

Section: Contemporary Telemedicinementioning

confidence: 99%

Telemedicine and current clinical practice trends in the COVID-19 pandemic

Wahezi

Kohan

Spektor

et al. 2021

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology

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Telemedicine is the medical practice of caring for and treating patients remotely. With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has become increasingly prevalent. Although telemedicine was already in practice before the 2020 pandemic, the internet, smartphones, computers and video-conferencing tools have made telemedicine easily accessible and available to almost everyone. However, there are also new challenges that health care providers may not be prepared for, including treating and diagnosing patients without physical contact. We review current trends involving telemedicine, how pandemics such as COVID-19 affect the remote treatment of patients, and key concepts important to health care providers who practice telemedicine.

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Section: Contemporary Telemedicinementioning

confidence: 99%

Telemedicine and current clinical practice trends in the COVID-19 pandemic

Wahezi

Kohan

Spektor

et al. 2021

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology

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“…In addition, to limit the community-level spread of COVID-19, access to non-emergency and elective care has been severely restricted during the pandemic [ 16 ]. Visits to primary care physicians and outpatient specialists have declined, and many hospitals have postponed or cancelled elective procedures.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Quality of life under the COVID-19 quarantine

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Background COVID-19 has spread rapidly throughout the world, causing thousands of illnesses and deaths. To fight this pandemic, almost all governments and health authorities have focused on prevention. In March or April, most countries' officials imposed home quarantine and lockdown measures nationwide. Purpose This study sought to assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and anxiety levels among people in Portugal under mandatory home quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The results were compared to the general Portuguese population's HRQoL before the COVID-19 outbreak. This research also aimed to understand the factors that can influence the respondents' HRQoL. Methods A sample of Portugal's population quarantined at home (n = 904) filled in an online survey comprising the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item and the EQ-5D-5L and other questions about sociodemographic characteristics, feelings, duties and activities during the quarantine. The sample was weighted to mirror the general population's gender, age and education. Descriptive analyses and correlation coefficients were used to evaluation the respondents' anxiety and HRQoL. Generalised linear models were estimated to identify determinants of HRQoL during the COVID-19 quarantine. Results The results show that individuals quarantined at home reported higher anxiety and lower HRQoL levels and that people with more anxiety tended to have a lower HRQoL. Females and elderly individuals experienced the highest levels of anxiety and poorest HRQoL. In addition, HRQoL during the quarantine can be explained by various occupational and attitudinal variables, as well as sociodemographic variables. Conclusion Individuals' mental health should be taken into consideration during pandemics or other emergency situations. Anxiety and other factors can decrease people's HRQoL, in conjunction with the pandemic's social and economic consequences.

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“…This can include socioeconomic, political, cultural, or even clinical aspects which could harm equitable access to healthcare during public health emergencies [1]. Providing the best possible clinical care could be mentioned as a critical duty for healthcare systems in each country or region in the era of COVID-19 [2][3][4]. Setting urgent medical centres to provide necessary medical services for patients during the outbreak is a practised experience for many countries [3,5,6].…”

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Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

Sofi‐Mahmudi¹,

Shamsoddin²,

Ghasemi

et al. 2021

BMC Oral Health

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Background Novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has impacted populations in many ways worldwide, including access to oral health services. This study aims to assess the association between lockdown due to COVID-19 and online searches for toothache in Iran using Google Trends (GT). Methods We investigated GT online searches for toothache within the past five years. The time frame for data gathering was considered as the initiation and end dates of the national lockdown in Iran. We performed one-way ANOVA statistical test to compare relative search volumes (RSVs) between the year 2020 and 2016–2019 for the whole country. Then we investigated the possible association of RSVs in provinces with dentists’ density, prevalence of current daily smokers, Human Development Index (HDI), Internet access, and fluoride concentration in water using linear regression. Results When comparing 2020 with the previous four years, there was a rise of 2020 RSVs versus all previous years combined and each year (P < 0.001 for all of them). In the linear model for the year 2020, HDI (B = − 3.29, 95% CI: (− 5.80, − 0.78), P = 0.012) had a strong negative relationship with provincial RSVs. HDI mostly had strong positive relationship with provincial RSVs in prior years. Fluoride concentration (B = − 0.13, 95% CI: (− 0.24, − 0.03), P = 0.017) and dentists’ density (B = − 0.04, 95% CI: (− 0.25, 0.17), P = 0.669) were also negatively associated with RSVs in 2020. These associations were mostly negative in the previous years as well. Internet access (B = 0.36, 95% CI: (− 0.38, 1.09), P = 0.325) and prevalence of daily smokers (B = 0.33, 95% CI: (0.13, 0.53), P = 0.002) were positively associated with RSVs. Conclusion The RSVs for toothache in 2020 have increased due to COVID-19-imposed lockdown compared with the same period in the past four years. This increase was related to socioeconomic factors.

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Clinical and economic strategies in outpatient medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 48 publications

References 26 publications

Telemedicine and current clinical practice trends in the COVID-19 pandemic

Telemedicine and current clinical practice trends in the COVID-19 pandemic

Quality of life under the COVID-19 quarantine

Association of COVID-19-imposed lockdown and online searches for toothache in Iran

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