Application of a Web-based Self-assessment Triage Tool During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Descriptive Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the implementation of telehealth solutions in medicine. A few symptom checkers dedicated for COVID-19 have been described, but it remains unclear whether and how they can affect patients and health systems.

Objective

This paper demonstrates our experiences with the COVID-19 risk assessment (CRA) tool. We tried to determine who the user of the web-based COVID-19 triage app is and compare this group with patients in the infectious diseases ward's admission room to evaluate who could benefit from implementing the COVID-19 online symptom checker as a remote triage solution.

Methods

We analyzed the answers of 248,862 people interacting with an online World Health Organization-based triage tool for assessing the probability of SA

SUBMITTER: Nowicka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8982648 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature