Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rheumatology nursing consultation.
Reumatol Clin (Engl Ed)
; 18(4): 231-235, 2022 Apr.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1258489
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought major changes to the model of patient care in Rheumatology. Our aim was to compare the change in the care delivered in a rheumatology nursing consultation before and during the pandemic. MATERIAL ANDMETHODS:
Descriptive and observational study. Patient care was registered before and during the COVID-19 outbreak. The variables collected were age, sex, prevalent rheumatic disease, type of visit and reason for consultation.RESULTS:
254 consecutive patients were included before the COVID-19 pandemic for 20 days and 251 patients during COVID-19 for 10 working days. The mean age was 61 years before and 57 during the pandemic. Of both groups, 74% were women. The most frequently attended pathologies before and during COVID-19 were rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathies. Scheduled face-to-face visits decreased during COVID-19 (46.5% versus 1.6%), with an increased number of phone scheduled visits (2.8% versus 52.2%) and spontaneous consultations either by phone or e-mail (28.3% versus 45%). The type of scheduled visits during COVID-19 were for stable diseases (20% versus 37%) and monitoring (12% versus 38%). The reason for spontaneous consultation increased during COVID-19 and were mainly doubts regarding prevention measures and treatment optimization (13.8% versus 31.1%).CONCLUSIONS:
The first wave of COVID-19 brought to rheumatology nursing consultation a global increase in all activities in the number of visits per day, in the number of stable patient controls, in monitoring and answering patient concerns.Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Rheumatology
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Rheumatic Diseases
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Case report
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Reumatol Clin (Engl Ed)
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.reumae.2021.02.001
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