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Guidance for Treating Patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) with Buprenorphine- Naloxone (B/N) in the COVID-19 Era via Telehealth: A Review of Previous Evidence, New COVID-19 OUD Treatment Guidelines, and a Case Report of their Application
(2020-06-08)
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline primary care providers care face the challenge of providing access to the evidence-based medication for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). Telehealth has emerged ...
Transforming Clinical Workflow for Telemedicine Visits in the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2020-05-29)
The Department of Family Medicine at Keck Medicine of USC has expanded its telehealth services to all providers across all clinical sessions and locations. Initial workflows developed for telemedicine visits fell short in ...
Quick COVID-19 Primary Care Survey of Clinicians: Summary of the pan-Canadian survey of frontline primary care clinicians’ experience with COVID-19, series 6-11
(2020-09-08)
On Friday April 10, the SPOR PIHCI Network, in partnership with the Larry A. Green Center, launched the weekly Canadian Quick COVID-19 Primary Care Survey. Weekly results are available in English and French and an invitation ...
The Hydroxychloroquine Debate: A Therapeutic Dilemma for General Practitioners
(2020-07-09)
Purpose France has been at the epicenter of the worldwide debate about hydroxychloroquine, as the main publications advocating its use to treat COVID-19 come from a research unit led by Didier Raoult in Marseille. The ...
Innovative healthcare organization to deal with COVID-19 in primary health care in the Haute-Garonne department, France
(2020-05-01)
Primary care health professionals (general practitioners, nurses) rapidly developed a collaborative approach to the management of COVID-19 with, on the one hand, hospital health professionals (emergency and infectiology ...
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 ...
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 ...