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COVID-19: Notes from the Frontline, Singapore’s Primary Healthcare Perspective
(2020-03-26)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a rapidly progressing global pandemic as nations struggle for containment. Singapore is known to have promptly instituted aggressive public health and containment measures. A key ...
Quick COVID-19 Primary Care Weekly Survey, Week 9
(2020-05-15)
On Friday, March 13, 2020, The Larry A. Green Center launched its first weekly Quick COVID-19 Primary Care Survey to assess the impact of COVID-19 on practices. An invitation to participate was distributed to 9,000 primary ...
COVID-19 Pandemic: What Every Otolaryngologist-Head and Neck Surgeon Needs to Know for Safe Airway Management
(2020)
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has unfolded with remarkable speed, posing unprecedented challenges for health care systems and society. Otolaryngologists have a special role in responding to this ...
Remote Options for Medication Abortion: Improving Patient Care During and After the Covid-19 Crisis
(2020-05-21)
The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted primary care and other practices towards remote care and telemedicine options to minimize viral exposure. Although in-person visits are sometimes indispensable, research shows that ...
Quick Covid-19 Primary Care Survey, Series 22
(2020-11-13)
Seven months into the pandemic, patients are exhibiting the effects of delayed or inaccessible care. Over half (56%) of primary care clinicians have seen an increase in negative impact on patients’ health. With COVID-19 ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 among people experiencing homelessness: Early evidence from Boston
(2020-04-10)
People experiencing homelessness are at high risk for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We estimated population frequencies of confirmed COVID-19 cases among adults experiencing homelessness in Boston relative to the ...
Family Medicine’s Role in the COVID 19 Pandemic
(2020-06-10)
Emergency Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Pulmonary / Critical Care specialists have been portrayed as the leaders of the front line fighting the battle against COVID 19. This essay explores the importance of Family ...
The need for a balanced hospital-based care (HBC) and home- and community-based care (HCBC) approach for COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
(2020-06-12)
The onslaught of COVID-19 pandemic has greatly overwhelmed some of the best healthcare systems in the world. Medical practitioners working in hospitals at the epicenters of COVID-19 pandemic have emphasized on the need to ...
Quick COVID-19 Primary Care Weekly Survey, Series 19
(2020-08-29)
“The worries and stresses are intense for families and those who care for them. There has been little attention paid to how we go forward for an extended, and unknown, period of time and what those effects will be and how ...
eClinic: increasing use of telehealth as a risk reduction strategy during the covid-19 pandemic
(BMJ Journals, 2020)
Prior to the covid-19 pandemic, telehealth was already being rapidly adopted nationally by healthcare systems. During the covid-19 pandemic, increased use of telehealth may be considered as a risk reduction strategy. ...