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COVID-19 research briefs: useful tools to support telehealth during COVID-19 lockdown
Question clinique
How can telehealth best be used to manage patients during quarantine for COVID-19?
L’Essentiel
Providing telehealth services is essential for managing the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. See the synopsis for useful tools and protocols that support clinicians. 5
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Plan de l'etude: Not applicable
Financement:
Cadre: Population-based
Sommaire
Research Brief #8: The widespread use of quarantine measures has created a need for telehealth in a setting where few are trained or have planned infrastructures. Although these are not research studies, the British Medical Journal and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have published two useful tools. On March 25, 2020, Greenhalgh, Koh, and Car published a nice overview of how telehealth sessions should occur, as well as the necessary infrastructures that need to be in place. The article has a useful 1-page summary that is aimed at physicians. The CDC has created an explicit script with branch points and specific care messages. For example, patients reporting symptoms of hypoxia or hypotension are directed to the emergency department and the script also cautions the patient to inform the medical providers of possible COVID-19 exposure. This script is more detailed and could be adapted for use by less-extensively trained clinicians.
Reviewer
Henry C. Barry, MD, MS
Professor
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI