Diabetes care during COVID-19 lockdown at a tertiary care centre in India

Providing scheduled consultations to persons with diabetes during the COVID-19 induced lockdowns posed a major challenge. With the clinicians occupied in COVID management, a strategy of using telemedicine and engaging a team of para-clinical doctors was devised. Telephonic follow up consults were gi...

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Autores principales: Joshi, Rajnish, Atal, Shubham, Fatima, Zeenat, Balakrishnan, Sadasivam, Sharma, Swati, Joshi, Ankur
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Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7358163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32673697
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2020.108316
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description Providing scheduled consultations to persons with diabetes during the COVID-19 induced lockdowns posed a major challenge. With the clinicians occupied in COVID management, a strategy of using telemedicine and engaging a team of para-clinical doctors was devised. Telephonic follow up consults were given and diabetes care was efficiently delivered.
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spelling pubmed-73581632020-07-14 Diabetes care during COVID-19 lockdown at a tertiary care centre in India Joshi, Rajnish Atal, Shubham Fatima, Zeenat Balakrishnan, Sadasivam Sharma, Swati Joshi, Ankur Diabetes Res Clin Pract Article Providing scheduled consultations to persons with diabetes during the COVID-19 induced lockdowns posed a major challenge. With the clinicians occupied in COVID management, a strategy of using telemedicine and engaging a team of para-clinical doctors was devised. Telephonic follow up consults were given and diabetes care was efficiently delivered. Elsevier B.V. 2020-08 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7358163/ /pubmed/32673697 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2020.108316 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. 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.
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