Coping with COVID-19: scaling up virtual care to standard practice

Barsom, Esther Z.; Feenstra, Tim M; Bemelman, Willem A.; Bonjer, Jaap; Schijven, Marlies P.

doi:10.1038/s41591-020-0845-0

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“…20 21 This, in order to preserve the provision of healthcare while avoiding face-to-face contact between clinician and patient. 22 As a consequence, healthcare professionals are dependent on either TC or VC. Now, more than ever, providing patients the option of VC is important in order to continue the delivery of qualitative patient care.…”

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Comparing video consultation and telephone consultation at the outpatient clinic of a tertiary referral centre: patient and provider benefits

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ObjectivesTelephone consultations are frequently used in the outpatient setting in order to avoid unnecessary travel and to reduce hospital visit-related costs for patients. However, they are limited by the absence of non-verbal communication in contrast to video consultation. Little is known considering the possible advantages of using video consultation in comparison to telephone consultation according to both patients and healthcare providers.MethodsPatients with colorectal diseases were asked to choose between a telephone consultation or a video consultation for their next appointment at the outpatient clinic of a tertiary referral centre. Willingness to use video consultation, value of non-verbal communication, patient satisfaction, provider satisfaction and user friendliness of the video connection technology were measured using questionnaires.ResultsNone of the included patients ever had a video consultation before with a healthcare provider. Nonetheless, 22/50 preferred a video consultation over a telephone consultation. Patients who preferred a video consultation underlined the benefits of providing visual feedback to both patients and healthcare providers. Moreover, healthcare providers felt they were better able to assess the patients’ healthcare condition.ConclusionFor patients who value both verbal and non-verbal interaction and feel comfortable with the use of video consultation, video consultation is the preferred contact modality. Shared decision making should be used to choose the preferred interaction modality. For patients with low digital skills, support might be needed or video consultation may not be the preferred choice.

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“…mHealth and telemedicine, combined with the preceding wearable devices and unobtrusive sensing and augmented by technologies such as Internet of Things, big-data analytics, AI and blockchain [163], can alleviate the challenge with a paradigm shift in health care. With virtual care such as video consultation [164] and further through remote monitoring of the health status of patients, delivery of interventions and treatment to patients at home, the care can be shifted from hospital to improvised hospital, community and home. Furthermore, these digital health technologies can minimize unnecessary exposure and cross-infection.…”

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Wearable Sensing and Telehealth Technology with Potential Applications in the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a pandemic with serious clinical manifestations including death.A pandemic at the large-scale like COVID-19 places extraordinary demands on the world's health systems, dramatically devastates vulnerable populations, and critically threatens the global communities in an unprecedented way. While tremendous efforts at the frontline are placed on detecting the virus, providing treatments and developing vaccines, it is also critically important to examine the technologies and systems for tackling disease emergence, arresting its spread and especially the strategy for diseases prevention. The objective of this article is to review enabling technologies and systems with various application scenarios for handling the COVID-19 crisis. The article will focus specifically on 1) wearable devices suitable for monitoring the populations at risk and those in quarantine, both for evaluating the health status of caregivers and management personnel, and for facilitating triage processes for admission to hospitals; 2) unobtrusive sensing systems for detecting the disease and for monitoring patients with relatively mild symptoms whose clinical situation could suddenly worsen in improvised hospitals; and 3) telehealth technologies for the remote monitoring and diagnosis of COVID-19 and related diseases. Finally, further challenges and opportunities for future directions of development are highlighted.

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“…In order to make sure that some of the negative mental health effects are counteracted, this calls for effective evidence-based interventions ( Wilson, 2011 ; Figueroa and Aguilera, 2020 ), that can be made available online and are scalable ( Schippers and Ziegler, 2019 ; de Jong et al, 2020 ). Although tele-health and video consultation can alleviate the immediate problems associated with the lock-down, ( Barsom et al, 2020 ; Zhou et al, 2020 ), there may not be enough staff to effectively treat all people that will need mental health care in the aftermath of the global lockdown ( Figueroa and Aguilera, 2020 ; Torales et al, 2020 ). Next to giving the public more information about effective coping styles ( Ibrahimagić et al, 2020 ), an interesting avenue is to make writing interventions available to the wider public, that have proven to have many (mental) health benefits ( Lepore and Smyth, 2002 ; Schippers et al, 2015 ), as well as performance benefits ( Schippers and Ziegler, 2019 ; de Jong et al, 2020 ; Schippers et al, 2020 ).…”

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For the Greater Good? The Devastating Ripple Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis

Schippers

2020

Front. Psychol.

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As the crisis around Covid-19 evolves, it becomes clear that there are numerous negative side-effects of the lockdown strategies implemented by many countries. Currently, more evidence becomes available that the lockdowns may have more negative effects than positive effects. For instance, many measures taken in a lockdown aimed at protecting human life may compromise the immune system, and purpose in life, especially of vulnerable groups. This leads to the paradoxical situation of compromising the immune system and physical and mental health of many people, including the ones we aim to protect. Also, it is expected that hundreds of millions of people will die from hunger and postponed medical treatments. Other side effects include financial insecurity of billions of people, physical and mental health problems, and increased inequalities. The economic and health repercussions of the crisis will be falling disproportionately on young workers, low-income families and women, and thus exacerbate existing inequalities. As the virus outbreak and media coverage spread fear and anxiety, superstition, cognitive dissonance reduction and conspiracy theories are ways to find meaning and reduce anxiety. These behavioral aspects may play a role in the continuance of lockdown decisions. Based on theories regarding agnotology (i.e., the ways ignorance or doubt about certain topics is created by means of withholding or presenting information in a certain way), social influence, superstition and stress and coping, I seek to explain the social and behavioral aspects of human behavior in times of crises. Both the Covid-19 crisis itself as well as the resulting economic and (mental) health crisis are global problems that may require global solutions. I present a model of drivers and outcomes of lockdown behaviors and offer suggestions and a tool to counteract the negative psychological effects by means of online life crafting therapeutic writing interventions.

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Coping with COVID-19: scaling up virtual care to standard practice

Cited by 54 publications

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Comparing video consultation and telephone consultation at the outpatient clinic of a tertiary referral centre: patient and provider benefits

Comparing video consultation and telephone consultation at the outpatient clinic of a tertiary referral centre: patient and provider benefits

Wearable Sensing and Telehealth Technology with Potential Applications in the Coronavirus Pandemic

For the Greater Good? The Devastating Ripple Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis

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