Becoming virtual: a preliminary experience of outpatient primary care during COVID-19 pandemic

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. This pandemic is transforming the world and has posed exceptional challenges to health care delivery. Saudi Arabia has exerted unprecedented efforts and measures to fight the pandemic. Appreciating the value of primary...

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Autores principales: Karim, Syed Irfan, Irfan, Farhana, Batais, Mohammed Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7864278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33598077
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.262.26574
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description The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. This pandemic is transforming the world and has posed exceptional challenges to health care delivery. Saudi Arabia has exerted unprecedented efforts and measures to fight the pandemic. Appreciating the value of primary health care during this crisis the family and community medicine department reorganized the services. We discuss the problems faced, solutions and lessons learned in the hope others may find it helpful.
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spelling pubmed-78642782021-02-16 Becoming virtual: a preliminary experience of outpatient primary care during COVID-19 pandemic Karim, Syed Irfan Irfan, Farhana Batais, Mohammed Ali Pan Afr Med J Commentary The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. This pandemic is transforming the world and has posed exceptional challenges to health care delivery. Saudi Arabia has exerted unprecedented efforts and measures to fight the pandemic. Appreciating the value of primary health care during this crisis the family and community medicine department reorganized the services. We discuss the problems faced, solutions and lessons learned in the hope others may find it helpful. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7864278/ /pubmed/33598077 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.262.26574 Text en Copyright: Syed Irfan Karim et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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