Challenges of non-COVID-19 patients with chronic illness during the pandemic

Challenges faced by non-COVID-19 patients with chronic illness are limitless during the lockdown period. These patients are mostly immunocompromised and vulnerable to infection. The worst affected would be chronic disease patients with lower household income. Patients' fear of approaching medic...

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Autores principales: Abraham, Debi Ann, Vijayakumar, Thangavel Mahalingam, Rajanandh, Muhasaparur Ganesan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7808183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33489985
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrpp.JRPP_20_64
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description Challenges faced by non-COVID-19 patients with chronic illness are limitless during the lockdown period. These patients are mostly immunocompromised and vulnerable to infection. The worst affected would be chronic disease patients with lower household income. Patients' fear of approaching medical facilities and also travel restrictions limit the patients to reach the healthcare team, and either of this leads to poor health outcome. Frequent communication with chronic disease patients by healthcare professionals is a key to encourage the patients to be adherent to the medications and manage their disease conditions.
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spelling pubmed-78081832021-01-22 Challenges of non-COVID-19 patients with chronic illness during the pandemic Abraham, Debi Ann Vijayakumar, Thangavel Mahalingam Rajanandh, Muhasaparur Ganesan J Res Pharm Pract Viewpoint Challenges faced by non-COVID-19 patients with chronic illness are limitless during the lockdown period. These patients are mostly immunocompromised and vulnerable to infection. The worst affected would be chronic disease patients with lower household income. Patients' fear of approaching medical facilities and also travel restrictions limit the patients to reach the healthcare team, and either of this leads to poor health outcome. Frequent communication with chronic disease patients by healthcare professionals is a key to encourage the patients to be adherent to the medications and manage their disease conditions. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7808183/ /pubmed/33489985 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrpp.JRPP_20_64 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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