The importance of physical examination in primary health care provided by NPHW is being threatened in COVID19 times

Physical examination has been one of the three pillars of diagnostic evaluation of illnesses. It has a larger role in the armamentarium of non-physician health workers. Due to prescriptions for social distancing in preventing COVID19, physical examination is being performed lesser than before. This...

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Autores principales: Jain, Rachna, Jain, Yogesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34017696
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1932_20
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description Physical examination has been one of the three pillars of diagnostic evaluation of illnesses. It has a larger role in the armamentarium of non-physician health workers. Due to prescriptions for social distancing in preventing COVID19, physical examination is being performed lesser than before. This poses a serious threat to the abilities of NPHW as well as to their relationship with the community.
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spelling pubmed-81328432021-05-19 The importance of physical examination in primary health care provided by NPHW is being threatened in COVID19 times Jain, Rachna Jain, Yogesh J Family Med Prim Care Commentary Physical examination has been one of the three pillars of diagnostic evaluation of illnesses. It has a larger role in the armamentarium of non-physician health workers. Due to prescriptions for social distancing in preventing COVID19, physical examination is being performed lesser than before. This poses a serious threat to the abilities of NPHW as well as to their relationship with the community. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-01 2021-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8132843/ /pubmed/34017696 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1932_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://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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