The importance of implementing inpatient virtual coverage in an endocrinology practice: lessons learned thus far from the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly changed the landscape of medical care and the healthcare system needs to quickly adapt in order to continue providing optimal medical care to hospitalized patients in an efficient, effective, and safe manner. Endocrinology diseases are commonly present in patients w...

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Autores principales: Griebeler, Marcio L., Pantalone, Kevin M., Gambino, Ron, Shewmon, David, Morrow, Jay, Mendlovic, Daniel, Makin, Vinni, Hamaty, Marwan, Hasan, Sana, Lansang, M. Cecilia, Zhou, Keren, Burguera, Bartolome
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7870283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33557919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40842-021-00118-7
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author Griebeler, Marcio L.
Pantalone, Kevin M.
Gambino, Ron
Shewmon, David
Morrow, Jay
Mendlovic, Daniel
Makin, Vinni
Hamaty, Marwan
Hasan, Sana
Lansang, M. Cecilia
Zhou, Keren
Burguera, Bartolome
author_facet Griebeler, Marcio L.
Pantalone, Kevin M.
Gambino, Ron
Shewmon, David
Morrow, Jay
Mendlovic, Daniel
Makin, Vinni
Hamaty, Marwan
Hasan, Sana
Lansang, M. Cecilia
Zhou, Keren
Burguera, Bartolome
author_sort Griebeler, Marcio L.
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly changed the landscape of medical care and the healthcare system needs to quickly adapt in order to continue providing optimal medical care to hospitalized patients in an efficient, effective, and safe manner. Endocrinology diseases are commonly present in patients with COVID-19 and often are major risk factors for development of severe disease. The use of electronic consultation and telemedicine have already been well-established in the outpatient setting but yet not commonly implemented in the inpatient arena. This type of remote medical care has the potential to provide a reliable delivery of endocrine care while protecting providers and patients from spreading infection. This short review intends to provide the initial steps for the development of an inpatient telemedicine endocrine service to patients with endocrine diseases. Telehealth will become part of our daily practices and has a potential to provide a safe and efficient method of consultative service.
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spelling pubmed-78702832021-02-09 The importance of implementing inpatient virtual coverage in an endocrinology practice: lessons learned thus far from the COVID-19 pandemic Griebeler, Marcio L. Pantalone, Kevin M. Gambino, Ron Shewmon, David Morrow, Jay Mendlovic, Daniel Makin, Vinni Hamaty, Marwan Hasan, Sana Lansang, M. Cecilia Zhou, Keren Burguera, Bartolome Clin Diabetes Endocrinol Commentary The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly changed the landscape of medical care and the healthcare system needs to quickly adapt in order to continue providing optimal medical care to hospitalized patients in an efficient, effective, and safe manner. Endocrinology diseases are commonly present in patients with COVID-19 and often are major risk factors for development of severe disease. The use of electronic consultation and telemedicine have already been well-established in the outpatient setting but yet not commonly implemented in the inpatient arena. This type of remote medical care has the potential to provide a reliable delivery of endocrine care while protecting providers and patients from spreading infection. This short review intends to provide the initial steps for the development of an inpatient telemedicine endocrine service to patients with endocrine diseases. Telehealth will become part of our daily practices and has a potential to provide a safe and efficient method of consultative service. BioMed Central 2021-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7870283/ /pubmed/33557919 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40842-021-00118-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Commentary
Griebeler, Marcio L.
Pantalone, Kevin M.
Gambino, Ron
Shewmon, David
Morrow, Jay
Mendlovic, Daniel
Makin, Vinni
Hamaty, Marwan
Hasan, Sana
Lansang, M. Cecilia
Zhou, Keren
Burguera, Bartolome
The importance of implementing inpatient virtual coverage in an endocrinology practice: lessons learned thus far from the COVID-19 pandemic
title The importance of implementing inpatient virtual coverage in an endocrinology practice: lessons learned thus far from the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full The importance of implementing inpatient virtual coverage in an endocrinology practice: lessons learned thus far from the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr The importance of implementing inpatient virtual coverage in an endocrinology practice: lessons learned thus far from the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed The importance of implementing inpatient virtual coverage in an endocrinology practice: lessons learned thus far from the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short The importance of implementing inpatient virtual coverage in an endocrinology practice: lessons learned thus far from the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort importance of implementing inpatient virtual coverage in an endocrinology practice: lessons learned thus far from the covid-19 pandemic
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7870283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33557919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40842-021-00118-7
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