Telehealth in the time of COVID-19
| Autor: | Resa E. Lewiss, Aditi U. Joshi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Program evaluation medicine.medical_specialty Referral Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pneumonia Viral education Staffing Telehealth Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Hospitals University 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Acute care Pandemic Health care medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Program Development Pandemics health care economics and organizations Cross Infection Infection Control New Jersey business.industry COVID-19 030208 emergency & critical care medicine General Medicine Pennsylvania Delaware medicine.disease Telemedicine Emergency Medicine Female Medical emergency Coronavirus Infections business Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Emergency Medicine Journal |
| ISSN: | 1472-0213 1472-0205 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/emermed-2020-209846 |
| Popis: | Telehealth or using technology for a remote medical encounter has become an efficient solution for safe patient care during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or COVID-19 pandemic. This medium allows patient immediate healthcare access without the need for an in-person visit. We designed a time-sensitive, practical, effective and innovative scale-up of telehealth services as a response to the demand for COVID-19 evaluation and testing. As more patients made appointments through the institution’s telehealth programme, we increased the number of clinicians available. JeffConnect, the acute care telehealth programme, was expanded to increase staffing from a standing staff of 37–187 doctors within 72 hours. Telehealth care clinicians primarily trained in emergency medicine, internal medicine and family medicine followed a patient decision pathway to risk stratify patients into three groups: home quarantine no testing, home quarantine with outpatient COVID-19 testing and referral for in-person evaluation in the ED, for symptomatic and potentially unstable patients. |
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