Safe Discharge Home With Telemedicine of Patients Requiring Nasal Oxygen Therapy After COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. To allow overwhelmed hospitals to focus on the most fragile and severely ill patients, new types of management had to be set up. During the pandemic, patients with COVID-19 from greater Paris area were monitored at home using a web-based remote system called COVIDOM™, using self-administered questionnaires, which triggered alerts to a regional control center. To ease hospital discharge and to prevent hospital from being overwhelmed, patients still requiring low-flow oxygen therapy discharged home were also included in this telemedicine solution. We aim to evaluate the safety of this original management. Methods: We conducted a retrospective multicenter cohort of patients discharged home fr

SUBMITTER: Dinh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8595095 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature