Suspected cases of COVID-19: study protocol for reporting characteristics and the outcomes
| Autor: | Mohamed Abd Elhamid, Ehab Hamed, Bayan Alemrayat |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 030106 microbiology Pneumonia Viral Reflection Primary care Disease community-acquired infections 03 medical and health sciences Betacoronavirus primary healthcare 0302 clinical medicine COVID-19 Testing Clinical Trial Protocols as Topic Clinical Protocols medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Intensive care medicine Pandemics Primary Care Protocol (science) lcsh:R5-920 business.industry Clinical Laboratory Techniques SARS-CoV-2 Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Laboratory test findings Pneumonia Practice Guidelines as Topic Infectious Disease Medicine business lcsh:Medicine (General) Family Practice Coronavirus Infections infectious disease medicine |
| Zdroj: | BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine Family Medicine and Community Health Family Medicine and Community Health, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2020) |
| Popis: | While research and reporting on COVID-19 disease focused on laboratory-confirmed cases, many suspected COVID-19 cases are advised to home isolate based on symptoms and risk factors and not on laboratory test findings. While guidance suggests that primary care physicians must rely on their clinical judgement for evaluation of those cases, there has been no risk stratifying tool that has been reported or validated in this cohort of patients. This reflection note reviews current guidance, identifies gaps in our knowledge and clinical practice and finally provides a rationale for research in this cohort of patients. We propose a research design with detailed descriptions of variables that would be feasible to examine in primary care settings. Primary care research in the characteristics and the outcomes of suspected cases of COVID-19 may provide a different view on the COVID-19 epidemic. We hypothesise that most of the patients with suspected diagnosis and home isolation will have good outcomes. Reporting on the characteristics and the outcomes in this cohort of patients may provide hope to patients and to the international community that receives daily updates on confirmed cases and mortality rates but none on the recovery counts. Severe acute respiratory syndrome |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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