Primary Care Population Management for COVID-19 Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 have mild to moderate symptoms manageable at home; however, up to 20% develop severe illness requiring additional support. Primary care practices performing population management can use these tools to remotely assess and manage COVID-19 patients and identify those needing additional medical support before becoming critically ill.

Aim

We developed an innovative population management approach for managing COVID-19 patients remotely.

Setting

Development, implementation, and evaluation took place in April 2020 within a large urban academic medical center primary care practice.

Participants

Our panel consists of 40,000 patients. By April 27, 2020, 305 had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-qPCR. Outreach was perfo

SUBMITTER: Blazey-Martin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7384553 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature