Confronting hidden COVID-19 burden: a telemedical solution for elective urological outpatient clinics

Westhofen, Thilo; Magistro, Giuseppe; Lennartz, Simon; Casuscelli, Jozefina; Stief, Christian und Rodler, Severin (2020): Confronting hidden COVID-19 burden: a telemedical solution for elective urological outpatient clinics. In: Infection, Bd. 48: S. 935-939

Abstract

Maintaining high-quality care for urological patients is a challenge during and after the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We observe an increasing volume of postponed elective visits at our tertiary care hospital, holding the risk for deterioration of non-emergency disease conditions. As it is unclear for how long the pandemic will last, we propose to implement telehealth as a solution to provide regular symptom monitoring compatible with social distancing guidelines during the pandemic and beyond. Telemedical assessment and prioritizing of high-risk patients for individual consults at outpatient services will have to be aligned with available outpatient capacity and local outbreak severity.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• Sprache: Englisch