Should All Patients Having Planned Procedures or Surgeries Be Tested for COVID-19?

Ar, Mohammed; Varma, Ashish; Abubaker, Muneer; Sm, Basheer; Manu, Lelna; Ma, Rafique; Vedasalam, Sakthikumar; Aldahi, A; Parvaze, P; A, Al Naama; Dergaa, Ismail

doi:10.47829/ajsccr.2020.2203

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“…Despite its high specificity and sensitivity the RT-PCR test [ 14 – 16 ], which has been considered the gold standard testing method during 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, comes at a substantial burden of time (8 hours on average from swabbing to results) and laboratory effort for the testing process itself, in addition to the relatively high cost.…”

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Organising football matches with spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: What can we learn from the Amir Cup Football Final of Qatar 2020? A call for action

Dergaa¹,

Varma²,

Tabben³

et al. 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic is a potential threat to professional sporting events when they eventually return to their usual calendar with spectators’ capacity of football stadiums usually exceeding 40,000 seats for important events. Hence, a strategy for safe return to sporting events is needed in the COVID-19 pandemic to pave the way towards a new normalcy. We reviewed the guidelines and policies implemented in organising the Amir Cup Football Final of Qatar, which hosted about 20,000 fans. The authors evaluated the publicly available information on the official websites of the various organizations involved and highlight the importance and usefulness of the Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Assay-Kit as a tool for screening sports spectators as well as the importance of a rigorous spectator pathway, including their accurate traceability thanks to a specific mobile phone application. Despite the surging of COVID-19 all over the world, a big football event with around 20,000 spectators in the same stadium has been hosted under strongly controlled preventative measures. These preventative measures show that it is possible to organize a major football match held outdoors, with the presence of thousands of supporters. This article is a call for action for the organisers of such events where the supporters’ health status is traceable to provide the scientific community with actual data of post-event infection rates. Therefore, it is suggested to consider using procedures like the ones described in the present article as a potential model in the process of organizing big sporting events with spectators in times of COVID-19.

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Organising football matches with spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: What can we learn from the Amir Cup Football Final of Qatar 2020? A call for action

Dergaa¹,

Varma²,

Tabben³

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“…Amongst 112 patients recruited from June until November, 50 participants volunteered to participate in this investigation. All participants were performing at least three sessions per week at Wellness Centre as an inclusion criterion to the program, their average weekly training volume was a minimum of ~3 h • wk−1 including various aerobic and anaerobic (short-term maximal exercises) (Dergaa et al 2019;2020;Romdhani et al 2021). Each participant was informed of the purpose, procedure, risks, and study details and consequently signed an informed consent form.…”

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“…Taking into consideration the current COVID-19 pandemic (Mohammed et al 2020;Trabelsi et al 2020;Varma et al 2020;Varma et al 2021), application of such reminder system is essentially important in ensuring the presence of certain number of patients at a time to allow enough space and safe exercise. In addition to limited patient's capacity, further standards shall be taken at Wellness to ensure patients having low risk of contracting COVID-19.…”

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Wellness Program Within Primary Health Care: How to Avoid “No Show” to Planned Appointments? – A Patient-Centred Care Perspective

Musa

Baker

Muraikhi

et al. 2021

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Background: Wellness program is a service provided by Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) to deliver an exercise program dedicated to patients with unhealthy lifestyle. Failing to cancel health care appointments in advance "no show" results in a vacant appointment slot that cannot be offered to other patients, which in turn will have an adverse impact on management plan and expected health outcome measures. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to implement a patient-centred care (PCC) program as an interventional approach to engage patients in changing behaviour and to encourage selfawareness to improve health status. Another aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an appointment reminder system (either short message service (SMS) or telephone call) on completion rate of the 12-week Wellness program. Methods: Amongst 112 patients, 50 participants (age: 49.9 ± 12.56 years; height: 1.61 ± 0.08 m; body mass: 75.06 ± 15 kg; body mass index (BMI): 28.66 ± 3.51 kg/m 2 ) completed two surveys as part of the PCC program. The first survey was regarding the appointment reminder's method preference. Accordingly, the demanded reminder system has been implemented as per patients' preferences and then the rate of completion of the 12-weeks-wellness-program has been compared to the months preceding the intervention to demonstrate the effectiveness of this new reminder system. Towards the end of the study, a second survey on patients' satisfaction level with regard the new reminder system has been completed. Results: The PCC program showed that majority of the patients were in favour of an appointment reminder system through SMS text message and telephone calls. Implementing this tool based on patient preference resulted in a high improvement of the completion rate of the Wellness program. Conclusions: This study provides insight on the efficacy of implementing a PCC program in Wellness Centre as well as the effectiveness of an appointment reminder system in improving the completion rate of Wellness program in a primary health care facility. Completing the Wellness program may lead to improved lifestyle behaviour and health outcomes by complying with international physical activity recommendations from the American College of Exercise Medicine (ACEM) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Should All Patients Having Planned Procedures or Surgeries Be Tested for COVID-19?

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Organising football matches with spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: What can we learn from the Amir Cup Football Final of Qatar 2020? A call for action

Organising football matches with spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: What can we learn from the Amir Cup Football Final of Qatar 2020? A call for action

Wellness Program Within Primary Health Care: How to Avoid “No Show” to Planned Appointments? – A Patient-Centred Care Perspective

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