Educating health professionals about COVID-19 with ECHO telementoring.

Autor: Katzman JG; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, ECHO Institute, Albuquerque, NM. Electronic address: JKatzman@salud.unm.edu., Thornton K; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, ECHO Institute, Albuquerque, NM., Sosa N; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM., Tomedi L; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, ECHO Institute, Albuquerque, NM., Hayes L; Division of Family Medicine, El Centro Family Health, Espanola, NM., Sievers M; New Mexico Department of Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Bureau, Santa Fe, NM., Culbreath K; Tricore Reference Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM., Norsworthy K; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, ECHO Institute, Albuquerque, NM., Martin C; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, ECHO Institute, Albuquerque, NM., Martinez A; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, ECHO Institute, Albuquerque, NM., Liu J; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, ECHO Institute, Albuquerque, NM., Arora S; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, ECHO Institute, Albuquerque, NM.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of infection control [Am J Infect Control] 2022 Mar; Vol. 50 (3), pp. 283-288. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 03.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2021.10.030
Abstrakt: Background: When the COVID-19 pandemic began, primary care clinicians had almost no knowledge regarding best practices COVID-19 treatment. Project ECHO developed a COVID-19 Infectious Disease Office Hours (Office Hours) program to respond to the needs of clinicians seeking COVID-19 information.
Methods: This mixed-methods evaluation analyzed weekly post-session data and focus group results from the weekly Office Hours ECHO sessions during June 1, 2020- May 31, 2021.
Results: A total of 1,421 participants attended an average of 4.9 sessions during the 45 Office Hours sessions studied. The most common specialties included: nurses= 530 (37%), physicians= 284 (20%), and 493 (34%) having other degrees. The participants stated that they were definitely (68.2%) or probably (22.0%) going to use what they learned in their work, especially vaccination information. Focus group results identified these themes: 1) quality information, 2) community of practice, 3) interprofessional learning, and 4) increased knowledge, confidence, and practice change.
Conclusions: This evaluation demonstrates that the Office Hours program was successful in bringing a large group of health professionals together each week in a virtual community of practice. The participants acknowledged their plans to use the information gained with their patients. This diffusion of knowledge from clinician to patient amplifies the response of the program, changes practice behavior and may improve patient care.
(Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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