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Outpatient Management of COVID-19 Disease: A Holistic Patient-Centered Proposal Based on the Greek Experience

Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a worldwide pandemic and affected more than 227 countries or territories, resulting in more than 179 million cases with over 3.890.00 deaths, as o...

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Autores principales: Liapikou, Adamantia, Tzortzaki, Eleni, Hillas, Georgios, Markatos, Miltiadis, Papanikolaou, Ilias C., Kostikas, Konstantinos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8400346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34442353
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm11080709
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author Liapikou, Adamantia
Tzortzaki, Eleni
Hillas, Georgios
Markatos, Miltiadis
Papanikolaou, Ilias C.
Kostikas, Konstantinos
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description Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a worldwide pandemic and affected more than 227 countries or territories, resulting in more than 179 million cases with over 3.890.00 deaths, as of June 25, 2021. The Hellenic Thoracic Society (HTS) during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic released a guidance document for the management of patients with COVID-19 in the community and in hospital setting. In this review, with guidance the HTS document, we are discussing the outpatient management of COVID-19 patients, including the preventive measures, the patients’ isolation and quarantine criteria of close contacts, the severity and risk stratification, including the decisions for advanced hospitalization, and the disease management at home in patients with mild disease and after hospital discharge for those with more severe disease.
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spelling pubmed-84003462021-08-29 Outpatient Management of COVID-19 Disease: A Holistic Patient-Centered Proposal Based on the Greek Experience Liapikou, Adamantia Tzortzaki, Eleni Hillas, Georgios Markatos, Miltiadis Papanikolaou, Ilias C. Kostikas, Konstantinos J Pers Med Review Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a worldwide pandemic and affected more than 227 countries or territories, resulting in more than 179 million cases with over 3.890.00 deaths, as of June 25, 2021. The Hellenic Thoracic Society (HTS) during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic released a guidance document for the management of patients with COVID-19 in the community and in hospital setting. In this review, with guidance the HTS document, we are discussing the outpatient management of COVID-19 patients, including the preventive measures, the patients’ isolation and quarantine criteria of close contacts, the severity and risk stratification, including the decisions for advanced hospitalization, and the disease management at home in patients with mild disease and after hospital discharge for those with more severe disease. MDPI 2021-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8400346/ /pubmed/34442353 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm11080709 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Outpatient Management of COVID-19 Disease: A Holistic Patient-Centered Proposal Based on the Greek Experience
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title_short Outpatient Management of COVID-19 Disease: A Holistic Patient-Centered Proposal Based on the Greek Experience
title_sort outpatient management of covid-19 disease: a holistic patient-centered proposal based on the greek experience
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8400346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34442353
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm11080709
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