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Remote patient monitoring for ED discharges in the COVID-19 pandemic
- Source :
- Emergency Medicine Journal : EMJ, Emergency Medicine Journal
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- BMJ Publishing Group, 2021.
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Abstract
- COVID-19 has had a significant effect on healthcare resources worldwide, with our knowledge of the natural progression of the disease evolving for the individual patient. To allow for early detection of worsening clinical status, protect hospital capacity and provide extended access for vulnerable patients, our emergency department developed a remote patient monitoring programme for discharged patients with COVID-19. The programme uses a daily emailed secure link to a survey in which patients submit biometric and symptoms data for monitoring. Patients’ meeting criteria are escalated to a physician for a phone or video visit. Here, we describe the development, implementation and preliminary analysis of utilisation of the programme.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
020205 medical informatics
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Remote patient monitoring
emergency care systems
Saudi Arabia
Early detection
effectiveness
02 engineering and technology
Disease
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
infectious diseases
emergency departments
03 medical and health sciences
InformationSystems_GENERAL
0302 clinical medicine
Phone
Pandemic
Health care
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
Monitoring, Physiologic
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Emergency department
General Medicine
medicine.disease
emergency department management
Patient Discharge
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Emergency Medicine
Female
Medical emergency
Report from the Front
business
Emergency Service, Hospital
viral
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14720213 and 14720205
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emergency Medicine Journal : EMJ
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6cfd5285b456290e2a08a0dd1209c798