Portable health clinic COVID-19 system for remote patient follow-up ensuring clinical safety.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A developing country like Bangladesh suffers very much from the sudden appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic due to the shortage of medical facilities for testing and follow-up treatment. The Portable Health Clinic (PHC) system has developed the COVID-19 module with a triage system for the detection of COVID-19 suspects and the follow-up of the home quarantined COVID-19 patients to reduce the workload of the limited medical facilities.

Methods

The PHC COVID-19 system maintains a questionnaire-based triage function using the experience of the Japanese practice of diseases management for early detection of suspected COVID-19 patients who may need a confirmation test. Then only the highly suspected patients go for testing preventing the unnecessary crowd from the confi

SUBMITTER: Islam R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9167465 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature