Influences of COVID-19 pandemic on hospital-at-home functions in Finland - a questionnaire survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate functions of Finnish hospital-at-home (HAH) during the first year of COVID19-pandemic 2020 compared with the previous year 2019.

Design

Retrospective questionnaire survey.

Setting

Finnish HAHs from Northern, Eastern, Southern, Western and Central parts of Finland participated in a questionnaire web-based questionnaire survey. The numbers of patients, activities and staff in 2019 and 2020, participation in the care of COVID19 patients, availability of protective clothing, attitudes of patients towards home care and development of new practices in the corona era were asked using both predefined and free questions.

Subjects

questionnaire was sent to the nurses and physicians in charge of the HAHs (N = 13), 77% responded. The HAHs pr

SUBMITTER: Poyhia R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9848305 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature