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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient appointments of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection has caused huge impacts on all of people’s lives and health systems. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, China was the first country to impose lockdown. We aimed to study the influence of COVID-19 on the outpatient visits of rheumatic patie...

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Autores principales: Xie, Tianhua, Wang, Dong, Wang, Xia, Yang, Qingrui, Sun, Hongsheng, Liu, Ruihong, Li, Ming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Vienna 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8212283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34143264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00508-021-01891-2
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author Xie, Tianhua
Wang, Dong
Wang, Xia
Yang, Qingrui
Sun, Hongsheng
Liu, Ruihong
Li, Ming
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Wang, Dong
Wang, Xia
Yang, Qingrui
Sun, Hongsheng
Liu, Ruihong
Li, Ming
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description BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection has caused huge impacts on all of people’s lives and health systems. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, China was the first country to impose lockdown. We aimed to study the influence of COVID-19 on the outpatient visits of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China. METHODS: We selected three provincial or ministerial hospitals in Jinan, and collected the outpatient appointments data in rheumatology and immunology departments during the Shandong Province first-level public health emergency response period from 25 January 2020 to 8 March 2020. RESULTS: In the early stage, the number of outpatient appointments in the rheumatology and immunology departments of the three provincial or ministerial hospitals were significantly reduced, and gradually restored in the late stage. It showed that in the face of major infectious diseases, strict quarantine measures with the cooperation of the public not only controls the epidemic in a short time, but also lifts the quarantine measures and opens general outpatient clinics in hospitals as soon as possible, thus minimizing the impact on other patients. INTERPRETATION: The impact on the western hospital was greater than that on the Chinese medicine hospital, and the impact on the back-up designated hospitals for COVID-19 was the greatest. Online appointment can reduce the risk of infection in outpatients, but not completely solve the follow-up problem of rheumatic patients. Telemedicine provides a new solution for both management of rheumatic patients and control of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-82122832021-06-21 Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient appointments of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China Xie, Tianhua Wang, Dong Wang, Xia Yang, Qingrui Sun, Hongsheng Liu, Ruihong Li, Ming Wien Klin Wochenschr Original Article BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection has caused huge impacts on all of people’s lives and health systems. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, China was the first country to impose lockdown. We aimed to study the influence of COVID-19 on the outpatient visits of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China. METHODS: We selected three provincial or ministerial hospitals in Jinan, and collected the outpatient appointments data in rheumatology and immunology departments during the Shandong Province first-level public health emergency response period from 25 January 2020 to 8 March 2020. RESULTS: In the early stage, the number of outpatient appointments in the rheumatology and immunology departments of the three provincial or ministerial hospitals were significantly reduced, and gradually restored in the late stage. It showed that in the face of major infectious diseases, strict quarantine measures with the cooperation of the public not only controls the epidemic in a short time, but also lifts the quarantine measures and opens general outpatient clinics in hospitals as soon as possible, thus minimizing the impact on other patients. INTERPRETATION: The impact on the western hospital was greater than that on the Chinese medicine hospital, and the impact on the back-up designated hospitals for COVID-19 was the greatest. Online appointment can reduce the risk of infection in outpatients, but not completely solve the follow-up problem of rheumatic patients. Telemedicine provides a new solution for both management of rheumatic patients and control of COVID-19. Springer Vienna 2021-06-18 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8212283/ /pubmed/34143264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00508-021-01891-2 Text en © Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Xie, Tianhua
Wang, Dong
Wang, Xia
Yang, Qingrui
Sun, Hongsheng
Liu, Ruihong
Li, Ming
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient appointments of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China
title Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient appointments of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China
title_full Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient appointments of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China
title_fullStr Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient appointments of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China
title_full_unstemmed Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient appointments of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China
title_short Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient appointments of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of China
title_sort impact of covid-19 pandemic on outpatient appointments of rheumatic patients in a non-outbreak area of china
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8212283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34143264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00508-021-01891-2
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