Anticoagulation clinic drive-up service during COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic affecting many countries worldwide. Given the increasing incidence especially in elderly and individuals with comorbid conditions, it is advised by health authorities to stay home if possible, maintain social distancing and stay away from those who a...

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Autores principales: Alhmoud, Eman, Abdelsamad, Osama, Soaly, Ezeldin, Enany, Rasha El, Elewa, Hazem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7333366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32621151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11239-020-02206-4
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author Alhmoud, Eman
Abdelsamad, Osama
Soaly, Ezeldin
Enany, Rasha El
Elewa, Hazem
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description Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic affecting many countries worldwide. Given the increasing incidence especially in elderly and individuals with comorbid conditions, it is advised by health authorities to stay home if possible, maintain social distancing and stay away from those who are sick or could be infected. Patients with comorbidities especially cardiovascular disease are at higher risk of getting infected with COVID-19 and have worse prognosis. Among efforts to safely manage warfarin patients during this pandemic, we introduced a hospital drive-up anticoagulation testing service. This service can reduce the risk of exposure of anticoagulation patients to COVID-19 by reducing the contact time with the different personnel at the hospital and by maintaining those patients at a safe distance from others
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spelling pubmed-73333662020-07-06 Anticoagulation clinic drive-up service during COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar Alhmoud, Eman Abdelsamad, Osama Soaly, Ezeldin Enany, Rasha El Elewa, Hazem J Thromb Thrombolysis Article Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic affecting many countries worldwide. Given the increasing incidence especially in elderly and individuals with comorbid conditions, it is advised by health authorities to stay home if possible, maintain social distancing and stay away from those who are sick or could be infected. Patients with comorbidities especially cardiovascular disease are at higher risk of getting infected with COVID-19 and have worse prognosis. Among efforts to safely manage warfarin patients during this pandemic, we introduced a hospital drive-up anticoagulation testing service. This service can reduce the risk of exposure of anticoagulation patients to COVID-19 by reducing the contact time with the different personnel at the hospital and by maintaining those patients at a safe distance from others Springer US 2020-07-03 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7333366/ /pubmed/32621151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11239-020-02206-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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