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Operation and management of a community treatment center using telemedicine for foreign patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms

South Korean studies on coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) treatment have described the use of community treatment centers (CTCs), which combine elements of the home and hospital, to isolate and treat mild COVID-19 patients. While the number of South Koreans diagnosed with COVID-19 cases has varied...

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Autores principales: Kim, Han Bit, Han, Sangsoo, Shin, Heejun, Lee, Young Hwan, Lee, Kyung Min, Kwak, Jae Ryoung, Cho, Young Soon, Kim, Hojung, Lim, Hoon, Kim, Gi Woon, Eo, Eunkyung, Noh, Hyun
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Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8615332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34964775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000027948
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author Kim, Han Bit
Han, Sangsoo
Shin, Heejun
Lee, Young Hwan
Lee, Kyung Min
Kwak, Jae Ryoung
Cho, Young Soon
Kim, Hojung
Lim, Hoon
Kim, Gi Woon
Eo, Eunkyung
Noh, Hyun
author_facet Kim, Han Bit
Han, Sangsoo
Shin, Heejun
Lee, Young Hwan
Lee, Kyung Min
Kwak, Jae Ryoung
Cho, Young Soon
Kim, Hojung
Lim, Hoon
Kim, Gi Woon
Eo, Eunkyung
Noh, Hyun
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description South Korean studies on coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) treatment have described the use of community treatment centers (CTCs), which combine elements of the home and hospital, to isolate and treat mild COVID-19 patients. While the number of South Koreans diagnosed with COVID-19 cases has varied greatly by season, the number of confirmed cases in foreign nationals has shown no seasonality, with an average of around 25 to 30 per day. For foreign patients, accommodation arrangements and travel routes may be difficult; they may also have difficulty accessing medical care, so require careful management. We discuss our experience in operating and managing a CTC for foreign COVID-19 patients arriving in South Korea with mild symptoms. We also propose guidelines for efficient use of resources with respect to treating these patients in CTCs. We present the clinical findings of patients treated at the CTC between 7 October and 22 November 2020, and make some recommendations. We quarantined and treated foreign patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19 at the Ansan CTC. Discharge is determined based on clinical symptoms rather than polymerase chain reaction results. Medical and administrative staff use building A, while building B is used for isolating patients. Medical rounds are in the form of twice-daily video calls. Three kinds of foods with medication are served according to the patient's country of origin. In total, 315 patients were admitted to the Ansan CTC between 7 October and 22 November 2020; 145 of them were discharged from the CTC and 26 were transferred to other hospitals. To utilize medical resources efficiently during the pandemic, it is desirable to reserve CTCs exclusively for foreign patients.
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spelling pubmed-86153322021-11-26 Operation and management of a community treatment center using telemedicine for foreign patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms Kim, Han Bit Han, Sangsoo Shin, Heejun Lee, Young Hwan Lee, Kyung Min Kwak, Jae Ryoung Cho, Young Soon Kim, Hojung Lim, Hoon Kim, Gi Woon Eo, Eunkyung Noh, Hyun Medicine (Baltimore) 4700 South Korean studies on coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) treatment have described the use of community treatment centers (CTCs), which combine elements of the home and hospital, to isolate and treat mild COVID-19 patients. While the number of South Koreans diagnosed with COVID-19 cases has varied greatly by season, the number of confirmed cases in foreign nationals has shown no seasonality, with an average of around 25 to 30 per day. For foreign patients, accommodation arrangements and travel routes may be difficult; they may also have difficulty accessing medical care, so require careful management. We discuss our experience in operating and managing a CTC for foreign COVID-19 patients arriving in South Korea with mild symptoms. We also propose guidelines for efficient use of resources with respect to treating these patients in CTCs. We present the clinical findings of patients treated at the CTC between 7 October and 22 November 2020, and make some recommendations. We quarantined and treated foreign patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19 at the Ansan CTC. Discharge is determined based on clinical symptoms rather than polymerase chain reaction results. Medical and administrative staff use building A, while building B is used for isolating patients. Medical rounds are in the form of twice-daily video calls. Three kinds of foods with medication are served according to the patient's country of origin. In total, 315 patients were admitted to the Ansan CTC between 7 October and 22 November 2020; 145 of them were discharged from the CTC and 26 were transferred to other hospitals. To utilize medical resources efficiently during the pandemic, it is desirable to reserve CTCs exclusively for foreign patients. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8615332/ /pubmed/34964775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000027948 Text en Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections.
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Kim, Han Bit
Han, Sangsoo
Shin, Heejun
Lee, Young Hwan
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Cho, Young Soon
Kim, Hojung
Lim, Hoon
Kim, Gi Woon
Eo, Eunkyung
Noh, Hyun
Operation and management of a community treatment center using telemedicine for foreign patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms
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title_short Operation and management of a community treatment center using telemedicine for foreign patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8615332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34964775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000027948
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