The COVID-19 pandemic and reproductive genetic counseling: Changes in access and service delivery at an academic medical center in the United States
| Autor: | Zhiguo Zhao, Gianna Petrelli, Arianna Guillard, Tan Ding, Brighton Goodhue, Randa Newman, Jill Slamon, Caitlin Mann, Martha E. Dudek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Telemedicine Service delivery framework Genetic counseling genetic services Telehealth Pregnancy COVID‐19 genetic counselors Health care Pandemic medicine Humans Pandemics Genetics (clinical) Academic Medical Centers genetic counseling business.industry Special Issue COVID-19 service delivery models prenatal genetic counseling medicine.disease Tennessee Family medicine Female Sample collection business Specialty Clinics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Genetic Counseling |
| ISSN: | 1573-3599 |
| Popis: | The COVID‐19 pandemic widely disrupted the delivery of healthcare services, including genetic counseling. To ensure continuity of care, the reproductive genetic counselors at a large academic medical center in the United States rapidly transitioned their practice from 90% in‐person patient consultations to a predominantly telehealth model. The present study describes this transition in regard to patient access to genetic counseling and genetic screening. A chart review of patients seen by the reproductive genetic counselors from January 2020 to August 2020 was completed. The time frame included the three months prior to the COVID‐19 pandemic and the first five months during COVID‐19. Patient demographics and clinical and appointment data were compared between the pre‐COVID‐19 and during‐COVID‐19 timeframes. Overall, 88.6% of patients were seen via telehealth during COVID‐19 and there was no significant difference based upon patient age (p = .20), indication for appointment (p = .06), or gestational age (p = .06). However, non‐English speaking patients were more often seen in‐person than by telehealth (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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