Covid-19: a remote assessment in primary care
By Trisha Greenhalgh, Gerald Choon Huat Koh, Josip Car. British medical journal, 2020
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### What you need to know A 37 year-old healthcare assistant develops a cough. Next day, she wakes with a fever (which she measures at 37.4°C) and shortness of breath. She manages her condition at home for several days, experiencing increasing tiredness, loss of appetite, and a persistent dry cough. On the fifth day of her illness, she develops mild diarrhoea, and her chest feels quite tight. She takes her temperature, which has gone up to 38.1°C. Feeling unwell, she contacts her GP surgery for advice. She would like someone to listen to her chest, but the receptionist tells her not to come to the surgery and offers her the choice of a telephone or video consultation. She was previously well apart from mild asthma (on occasional salbutamol). Five years ago, she took citalopram for anxiety. She is a single parent of three children. Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) is an urgent and spreading threat whose clinical and epidemiological characteristics are still being documented.12 With a view to containing covid-19, a shift from in-person to remote consulting is occurring. Clinicians are thus faced with a new disease and a new way of interacting with patients. This article will present some guiding principles on how to choose between telephone and video appointments, how to conduct a “query covid” consultation remotely, and considerations when arranging follow-up and next steps. It does not cover remote triage or how to set up …
Subfields: General Health Professions, Information Systems, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- The role of telehealth during COVID-19 outbreak: a systematic review based on current evidence (2020, background): “Furthermore, some physicians are concerned about technical and clinical quality, privacy, safety and accountability (23, 30).”
- Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19: Deep Learning Approaches for Diagnosis and Treatment (2020, background): “for the rapid deterioration of the function of the respiratory system that often happens in the second week of the disease; therefore, the current wellness of the patients cannot be a guarantee that they are not hit by the disease and safety netting advice has to be taken seriously [78].”
- Digital Health Strategies to Fight COVID-19 Worldwide: Challenges, Recommendations, and a Call for Papers (2020, background): “Telemedicine allows patients to receive care at home [10], thus avoiding the spread of COVID-19 in overcrowded emergency or waiting rooms [11].”