Impact of a phone call with a medical student/general practitioner team on morbidity of chronic patients during the first French COVID-19 lockdown (COVIQuest): a cluster randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The first COVID-19 lockdown led to a significantly reduced access to healthcare, which may have increased decompensations in frail patients with chronic diseases, especially older patients living with a chronic cardiovascular disease (CVD) or a mental health disorder (MHD). The objective of COVIQuest was to evaluate whether a general practitioner (GP)-initiated phone call to patients with CVD and MHD during the COVID-19 lockdown could reduce the number of hospitalisation(s) over a 1-month period.

Design

This is a cluster randomised controlled trial. Clusters were GPs from eight French regions.

Participants

Patients ≥70 years old with chronic CVD (COVIQuest_CV subtrial) or ≥18 years old with MHD (COVIQuest_MH subtrial).

Interventions

A standardised GP

SUBMITTER: Dibao-Dina C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9340580 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature