Race, Heart Rate, and Temperature Are Strongly Associated With COVID-19 at a Community-based Clinic in New Orleans

Federally qualified health centers are on the frontlines of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States. It is essential to develop the workflows necessary to evaluate patients, perform appropriate diagnostics, make clinical recommendations, and provide public health messag...

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Autores principales: Kalayjian, Benjamin C., Conner, Katherine, Butler, Isolde, Myers, Leann, Telleria, Christian, Panchang, Deepa, Halperin, Jason
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32838207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2020.07.005
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author Kalayjian, Benjamin C.
Conner, Katherine
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Telleria, Christian
Panchang, Deepa
Halperin, Jason
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description Federally qualified health centers are on the frontlines of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States. It is essential to develop the workflows necessary to evaluate patients, perform appropriate diagnostics, make clinical recommendations, and provide public health messaging. This brief report presents findings from our COVID-19 response and compares the characteristics between the 345 patients screened between March 16 and April 10, 2020. One hundred seventeen patients tested positive for COVID-19, an overall rate of 33.9%; and Black race, increased heart rate, elevated temperature, and the use of antipyretic agents were associated with positive results.
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spelling pubmed-74286782020-08-17 Race, Heart Rate, and Temperature Are Strongly Associated With COVID-19 at a Community-based Clinic in New Orleans Kalayjian, Benjamin C. Conner, Katherine Butler, Isolde Myers, Leann Telleria, Christian Panchang, Deepa Halperin, Jason Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes Brief Report Federally qualified health centers are on the frontlines of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States. It is essential to develop the workflows necessary to evaluate patients, perform appropriate diagnostics, make clinical recommendations, and provide public health messaging. This brief report presents findings from our COVID-19 response and compares the characteristics between the 345 patients screened between March 16 and April 10, 2020. One hundred seventeen patients tested positive for COVID-19, an overall rate of 33.9%; and Black race, increased heart rate, elevated temperature, and the use of antipyretic agents were associated with positive results. Elsevier 2020-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7428678/ /pubmed/32838207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2020.07.005 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Race, Heart Rate, and Temperature Are Strongly Associated With COVID-19 at a Community-based Clinic in New Orleans
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title_fullStr Race, Heart Rate, and Temperature Are Strongly Associated With COVID-19 at a Community-based Clinic in New Orleans
title_full_unstemmed Race, Heart Rate, and Temperature Are Strongly Associated With COVID-19 at a Community-based Clinic in New Orleans
title_short Race, Heart Rate, and Temperature Are Strongly Associated With COVID-19 at a Community-based Clinic in New Orleans
title_sort race, heart rate, and temperature are strongly associated with covid-19 at a community-based clinic in new orleans
topic Brief Report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2020.07.005
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