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Diabetes care during COVID-19 lockdown at a tertiary care centre in India.

Joshi, Rajnish; Atal, Shubham; Fatima, Zeenat; Balakrishnan, Sadasivam; Sharma, Swati; Joshi, Ankur.

Diabetes Res Clin Pract ; 166: 108316, 2020 Aug.

Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-640886

ABSTRACT

Providing scheduled consultations to persons with diabetes during the COVID-19 induced lockdowns posed a major challenge. With the clinicians occupied in COVID management, a strategy of using telemedicine and engaging a team of para-clinical doctors was devised. Telephonic follow up consults were given and diabetes care was efficiently delivered.

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Betacoronavirus/isolation & purification , Coronavirus Infections/complications , Diabetes Mellitus/drug therapy , Insulin/therapeutic use , Pneumonia, Viral/complications , Referral and Consultation/statistics & numerical data , Telemedicine/methods , Tertiary Care Centers/statistics & numerical data , Blood Glucose/analysis , COVID-19 , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Coronavirus Infections/virology , Diabetes Mellitus/physiopathology , Diabetes Mellitus/virology , Female , Humans , Hypoglycemic Agents/therapeutic use , India/epidemiology , Male , Middle Aged , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Viral/virology , SARS-CoV-2

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