Genetic counseling during COVID-19 pandemic: Tuscany experience
| Autor: | Sabrina Giglio, Angelica Pagliazzi, Giovanna Traficante, Achille Iolascon, Fabiana di Giovanni, Giulia Gori, Giorgia Mancano, Giulia Forzano |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Pagliazzi, A., Mancano, G., Forzano, G., di Giovanni, F., Gori, G., Traficante, G., Iolascon, A., Giglio, S. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Postnatal Care medicine.medical_specialty Telemedicine Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lcsh:QH426-470 Genetic counseling Genetics Medical 030105 genetics & heredity 03 medical and health sciences COVID‐19 Pediatric hospital Pandemic Health care Genetics medicine Humans Genetics(clinical) Molecular Biology telegenetics Genetics (clinical) Genetics & Heredity Science & Technology genetic counseling business.industry pandemic COVID-19 Prenatal Care Genetics and Genomic Medicine around the World lcsh:Genetics 030104 developmental biology Italy Family medicine Medical genetics telegenetic telemedicine business Life Sciences & Biomedicine Human |
| Zdroj: | Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, Vol 8, Iss 10, Pp n/a-n/a (2020) Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine |
| Popis: | Background COVID‐19 outbreak prompted health centres to reorganize their clinical and surgical activity. In this paper, we show how medical genetics department's activity, in our tertiary pediatric hospital, has changed due to pandemic. Methods We stratified all our scheduled visits, from March 9th through April 30th, and assessed case‐by‐case which genetic consultations should be maintained as face‐to‐face visit, or postponed/switched to telemedicine. Results Out of 288 scheduled appointments, 60 were prenatal consultations and 228 were postnatal visits. We performed most of prenatal consultations as face‐to‐face visits, as women would have been present in the hospital to perform other procedures in addition to our consult. As for postnatal care, we suspended all outpatient first visits and opted for telemedicine for selected follow‐up consultations: interestingly, 75% of our patients’ parents revealed that they would have cancelled the appointment themselves for the fear to contract an infection. Conclusions Spread of COVID‐19 in Italy forced us to change our working habits. Given the necessity to optimize healthcare resources and minimize the risk of in‐hospital infections, we experienced the benefits of telegenetics. Current pandemic made us familiar with telemedicine, laying the foundations for its application to deal with the increasing number of requests in clinical genetics. In this paper, we show how medical genetics department's activity, in our tertiary pediatric hospital, has changed due to COVID‐19 pandemic. Given the necessity to optimize healthcare resources and minimize the risk of in‐hospital infections, we experienced the benefits of telegenetics. Current pandemic made us familiar with telemedicine, laying the foundations for its application to deal with the increasing number of requests in clinical genetics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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