CEdRIC: Strategy for Patient Education During COVID-19 Triage.

ABSTRACT: The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is forcing healthcare systems around the word to organise care differently than before. Prompt detection and effective triage and isolation of potentially infected and infectious patients are essential to preventing unnecessary community exposure. Since there are as yet no medications to treat or vaccines to prevent COVID-19, prevention focuses on self-management strategies, creating patient education challenges for physicians doing triage and testing. This article describes a five-step process for effectively educating, at discharge, patients who are suspected of being infectious and instructed to self-isolate at home. We are proposing the CEdRIC strategy as a practical, straightforward protocol that meets patient education and heal

SUBMITTER: Petre B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673883 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature