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Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: COVID-19 has had a crippling effect on the health care systems around the world with cancellation of elective medical services and disruption of daily life. We would like to highlight the learning opportunities offered by the current pandemic and their implication for a better f...
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Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7305503/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32599533 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.036 |
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author | Iyengar, Karthikeyan Mabrouk, Ahmed Jain, Vijay Kumar Venkatesan, Aakaash Vaishya, Raju |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: COVID-19 has had a crippling effect on the health care systems around the world with cancellation of elective medical services and disruption of daily life. We would like to highlight the learning opportunities offered by the current pandemic and their implication for a better future health care system. METHODS: We have undertaken a comprehensive review of the current literature to analyse the consequences of COVID-19 on health care system. Using suitable keywords like ‘COVID-19’, ‘telemedicine’, ‘health care’ and ‘remote consultations’ on the search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the first week of May we gathered information on various aspects of effect of COVID-19. RESULTS: There has been a shared drive worldwide to devise strategies to protect people against viral transmission with reinforcement of hand hygiene and infection control principles but also to provide continuity of health care. Virtual and remote technologies have been increasingly used in health care management. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 has offered unique learning opportunities for the health care sector. Rationalizing and optimizing available resources with resilience shown on the coronavirus frontline during the crisis are some of most important lessons learnt during the crisis. Importance of personal hygiene and re-enforcement of infection control measures have been acknowledged. Telemedicine revolution will be a vital factor in delivering health care in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-73055032020-06-22 Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system Iyengar, Karthikeyan Mabrouk, Ahmed Jain, Vijay Kumar Venkatesan, Aakaash Vaishya, Raju Diabetes Metab Syndr Article BACKGROUND AND AIMS: COVID-19 has had a crippling effect on the health care systems around the world with cancellation of elective medical services and disruption of daily life. We would like to highlight the learning opportunities offered by the current pandemic and their implication for a better future health care system. METHODS: We have undertaken a comprehensive review of the current literature to analyse the consequences of COVID-19 on health care system. Using suitable keywords like ‘COVID-19’, ‘telemedicine’, ‘health care’ and ‘remote consultations’ on the search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the first week of May we gathered information on various aspects of effect of COVID-19. RESULTS: There has been a shared drive worldwide to devise strategies to protect people against viral transmission with reinforcement of hand hygiene and infection control principles but also to provide continuity of health care. Virtual and remote technologies have been increasingly used in health care management. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 has offered unique learning opportunities for the health care sector. Rationalizing and optimizing available resources with resilience shown on the coronavirus frontline during the crisis are some of most important lessons learnt during the crisis. Importance of personal hygiene and re-enforcement of infection control measures have been acknowledged. Telemedicine revolution will be a vital factor in delivering health care in the future. Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020 2020-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7305503/ /pubmed/32599533 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.036 Text en © 2020 Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Iyengar, Karthikeyan Mabrouk, Ahmed Jain, Vijay Kumar Venkatesan, Aakaash Vaishya, Raju Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system |
title | Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system |
title_full | Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system |
title_fullStr | Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system |
title_full_unstemmed | Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system |
title_short | Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system |
title_sort | learning opportunities from covid-19 and future effects on health care system |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7305503/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32599533 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.036 |
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