Protocol for Telehealth Evaluation and Follow-up of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
J Am Med Dir Assoc
; 21(12): 1803-1807, 2020 12.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-866830
ABSTRACT
Because of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we were forced to cancel scheduled visits for nearly 150 patients followed in our heart failure (HF) outpatient clinic. Therefore, we structured a telephone follow-up, developing a standardized 23-item questionnaire from which we obtained the Covid-19-HF score. The questionnaire was built to reproduce our usual clinical evaluation investigating a patient's social and functional condition, mood, adherence to pharmacological and nonpharmacological recommendations, clinical and hemodynamic status, pharmacological treatment, and need to contact emergency services. The score was used as a clinical tool to define patients' clinical stability and timing of the following telephone contact on the basis of the assignment to progressively increasing risk score groups green (0-3), yellow (4-8), and red (≥9). Here we present our experience applying the score in the first 30 patients who completed the 4-week follow-up, describing baseline clinical characteristics and events that occurred in the period of observation.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Telemedicine
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COVID-19
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Heart Failure
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
J Am Med Dir Assoc
Journal subject:
History of Medicine
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Medicine
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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