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Care of traditional patients in the campaign against COVID-19: casualties of friendly fire

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have adopted protocols geared to optimize the care of patients with COVID-19, while mitigating risk of exposure to other patients and to health care workers. These modifications can have un-intended consequences and impact the care of non-COVID patient...

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Autor principal: Srivastava, Mukta Chandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1781031
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description In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have adopted protocols geared to optimize the care of patients with COVID-19, while mitigating risk of exposure to other patients and to health care workers. These modifications can have un-intended consequences and impact the care of non-COVID patients. In the campaign against COVID-19, we must remain vigilant that patients with traditional disease processes also receive thoughtful and coordinated care.
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spelling pubmed-74274542020-08-25 Care of traditional patients in the campaign against COVID-19: casualties of friendly fire Srivastava, Mukta Chandra J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Perspective In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have adopted protocols geared to optimize the care of patients with COVID-19, while mitigating risk of exposure to other patients and to health care workers. These modifications can have un-intended consequences and impact the care of non-COVID patients. In the campaign against COVID-19, we must remain vigilant that patients with traditional disease processes also receive thoughtful and coordinated care. Taylor & Francis 2020-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7427454/ /pubmed/32850083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1781031 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Greater Baltimore Medical Center. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850083
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