| Autor: |
Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Özden Gökdemir, Maria Antonopoulou, Beata Blahová, Natasa Mrduljaš - Đujić, Gindrovel Dumitra, Rosario Falanga, Mercedes Ferreira, Sandra Gintere, Sehnaz Hatipoglu, Jean-Pierre Jacquet, Kateřina Javorská, Ana Kareli, András Mohos, Sody Naimer, Victoria Tkachenko, Angela Tomacinschii, Jane Randall-Smith, Donata Kurpas |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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BACKGROUND Remote consultations help reduce the level of contact between people and prevent cross-contamination. Little is known about the changes in consultation in European rural primary care during the Covid-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE The purpose of our mixed method cross sectional study was to find out more about the effects of Covid-19 pandemic on patient consultation in European primary care. METHODS Key informant survey from sixteen member countries of the European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association using a 48-item questionnaire. Proportions were calculated for dichotomized or categorized data, and means were calculated for continuous data. Multivariate analysis by logistic regression model was used to assess the association of multiple variables. RESULTS We collected questionnaires from 406 primary care informants in 16 European countries; 245 respondents (60.5%) were females. 152 PC informants were rural (37.5%), 124 semi-rural (30.5%). Mean age of the respondents was 45.9 years (SD 11.30) while seniority (mean) was 18.2 years (SD 11.6). 381 (93.8 %) of the respondents were medical doctors. Significant differences were found between countries in adopting alternative arrangements for face-to-face consultation: remote teleconsultation is well appreciated by both healthcare professionals and patients, but the most common way of remote consultation remains telephone consultation. A factor significantly inversely associated with the adoption of video consultation was the seniority of the primary care health care personnel OR: 1.19, 95% CI (1.02-1.40) P=0.03. CONCLUSIONS Telephone consultation is the most common form of remote consultation. The adoption of video-consultation is inversely related to the seniority of the informants. |
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OpenAIRE |
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