1. The Covid-19 Pandemic Accelerates Changes in Delivery of Primary Health Care Started in 2019: Face-To-Face, Telehealth and Physician Workload after 12 Months
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Juan Montero-Alía, Antonio Casanova-Uclés, Mª Mercedes Jiménez-González, Elena Zurilla-Leonarte, Estíbaliz López-Torrent, Teresa Gros-Garcia, Maria Bartolomé-Regué, Gemma Seda-Gombau, Anna Costa-Garrido, Gemma Estrada-Bancells, Jana Gerhard-Perez, and Pere Torán-Monserrat
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Complementary and alternative medicine ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Pharmacology (medical) - Abstract
Objective: To assess the changes in Catalan General Practitioners practices a year after the outbreak of the pandemic by analysing the schedule and the types and complexity of consultations. Methods: This is a multicentre descriptive study with General Practitioners from 27 primary care centres in the province of Barcelona, serving a population area of more than 400,000 inhabitants. The physicians volunteered to take part in the study. For the study, records of clinical activity were analysed prospectively and in real time, to compare the type of visit, reasons for consultation, adequacy and complexity of the consultation during a week of May 2019 versus a week of May 2021. Results: During 2019 and 2021, a total of 88 General Practitioners participated in the study, collecting information of a total of 579 working days. We found statistically significant differences (p
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- 2023
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