Telemedicine Consultations and Follow-up of Patients With COVID-19

Crane, Sarah J.; Ganesh, Ravindra; Post, Jason A.; Jacobson, Nathan A.

doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.06.051

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“…Consequently, domiciliary telephone monitoring from primary healthcare represents a valuable, safe, and resources friendly option to evaluate patients’ evolution. Furthermore, it avoids unnecessary visits to healthcare centers enabling the required isolation restrictions [ 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ].…”

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“…Patients telephone monitoring has been proven to be a beneficial tool in COVID-19 response similarly for other diseases, and it has been implemented in many countries [ 28 , 30 , 31 , 36 ]. Specially in Italy, one of the European countries where Covid-19 struck first and hardly, the role of family medicine and telemedicine was found to be essential in the prevention of patients’ referral to the emergency departments, thus avoiding the collapse of hospitals and primary centers and facilitating the first triage and hospital admission of those patients that were likely to have a critical deterioration due to comorbidities and a strong illness evolution [ 36 ].…”

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Evolution of a Cohort of COVID-19 Infection Suspects Followed-Up from Primary Health Care

Coronado-Vázquez

Ramírez-Durán

Gómez‐Salgado

et al. 2021

JPM

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Diagnosis and home follow-up of patients affected by COVID-19 is being approached by primary health care professionals through telephone consultations. This modality of teleconsultation allows one to follow the evolution of patients and attend early to possible complications of the disease. The purpose of the study was to analyze the evolution of a cohort of patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 disease followed by primary care professionals and to determine the factors that are associated with hospital admission. A prospective cohort study was carried out on 166 patients selected by consecutive sampling that showed symptoms compatible with COVID-19. The follow-up was approached via telephone for 14 days analyzing hospitalization and comorbidities of the patients. There were 75% of the hospitalized patients that were male (p = 0.002), and 70.8% presented comorbidities (p < 0.001). In patients with diabetes, the risk of hospitalization was 4.6-times larger, in hypertension patients it was 3.3-times, those suffering from renal insufficiency 3.8-times, and immunosuppressed patients 4.8-times (IC 95%: 1.9–11.7). In 86.7% of the cases, clinical deterioration was diagnosed in the first seven days of the infection, and 72% of healing was reached from day seven to fourteen. Monitoring from primary care of patients with COVID-19 allows early diagnosis of clinical deterioration and detection of comorbidities associated with the risk of poor evolution and hospital admission.

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Evolution of a Cohort of COVID-19 Infection Suspects Followed-Up from Primary Health Care

Coronado-Vázquez

Ramírez-Durán

Gómez‐Salgado

et al. 2021

JPM

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“…The pandemic has raised new and challenging questions in preparing for the safe transition to the community and halting the spread of COVID-19. Successful responses have emerged to address these challenges such as the development of a hierarchical system for identifying patients and forwarding clinical messages [11] and virtual care models have been widely accepted by patients and represent a key component for providing safe and timely health care during this pandemic [12]. In addition, students can be involved in conducting a health education session, as in a previous study in which trainees in their final semester and who used motivational interviews to help patients set goals in managing the disease.…”

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Transitional Care in Times of COVID 19: Opportunities for e-Health Interventions

Baixinho

Sousa

Ferreira

2021

Lecture Notes in Bioengineering

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People admitted to hospitals are vulnerable to experiencing care continuity loss when there are alterations in their health condition or when they are transferred between care institutions. This is a challenge for health systems to guarantee the execution of a set of actions whose objective is ensuring care continuity between different care levels. This studied aimed to understand the influence of the current pandemic on the continuity of care between the hospital and the community. The participants were five nurses, who gave free and informed consent to participate. Content analysis was the technique used in data analysis. Data anonymity and confidentiality were ensured, and the data was coded without identifying customers and their families. An ethic commission authorized the study. The findings shows that transitional care has become a missing care during the pandemic, due to the need to reorganize the services and teams to provide care to the COVID patients and by the limitations of visits to hospitalized elderly. Professionals note that not only the discharge preparation and caregiver training were affected, but also communication with primary health care became more difficult, with clear defragmentation in the transitional care. In the professionals' discourse, the need to rethink ways of ensuring continuity of care emerges, with e-health interventions being seen as an opportunity to ensure the safety of the elderly and their caregivers, the articulation with colleagues in primary health care and continuity of rehabilitation care. Despite the limitations of the study, several recommendations for the clinic and investigation emerge.

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“…Many healthcare systems offer a wide array of telehealth services, which may include vital-sign tracking via remote patient monitoring, psychological support services, and virtual transition of care visits. 34 The University of Michigan has implemented a COVID-19 Completion at Home Pathway program, consisting of remote vital sign monitoring and alternating virtual medical provider visits and in-person nurse visits for the first 4 days post-discharge, along with PT/OT support, in an effort to allow earlier hospital discharge and patient recovery at home. 35…”

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Commentary: Special care considerations in older adults hospitalized with COVID-19

Zietlow

Wiggins

Jenq

et al. 2021

Aging and Health Research

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Telemedicine Consultations and Follow-up of Patients With COVID-19

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Evolution of a Cohort of COVID-19 Infection Suspects Followed-Up from Primary Health Care

Evolution of a Cohort of COVID-19 Infection Suspects Followed-Up from Primary Health Care

Transitional Care in Times of COVID 19: Opportunities for e-Health Interventions

Commentary: Special care considerations in older adults hospitalized with COVID-19

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