Teleconsultation in family medicine amid the Covid-19 pandemic: An adequate tool?
Infect Dis Now
; 52(4): 230-232, 2022 Jun.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1821256
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Teleconsultation is an emerging tool whose utilization dramatically increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our aim was to determine its clinical accuracy.METHODS:
This prospective study was carried out during the first wave of Covid-19. Patients were teleconsulted by either general practitioners or emergency doctors reporting clinical exam results to the ID physicians by phone. Five signs were specifically checked dyspnea, fever, cough, anosmia and flu-like illness. Data collected by remote consultation were compared to face-to-face examination in an ID Department.RESULTS:
From March to April 2020, 149 patients were seen by remote medical care. Dyspnea was found in 14.1% of the teleconsultation patients vs 3.4% in face-to-face consultation; fever in 47.0 vs. 15.4%; cough in 69.1 vs. 16.1%; anosmia in 3.4 vs. 1.3%; flu-like illness in 53.0 vs. 7.4% (all differences significant P<0.001).CONCLUSION:
We observed incongruency between remote and face-to-face consultation for the main clinical signs of Covid-19.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Remote Consultation
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Infect Dis Now
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.idnow.2022.05.004
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