Universität zu Köln

Westhofen, Thilo, Magistro, Giuseppe, Lennartz, Simon, Casuscelli, Jozefina, Stief, Christian and Rodler, Severin . Confronting hidden COVID-19 burden: a telemedical solution for elective urological outpatient clinics. Infection. HEIDELBERG: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG. ISSN 1439-0973

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Abstract

Maintaining high-quality care for urological patients is a challenge during and after the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We observe an increasing volume of postponed elective visits at our tertiary care hospital, holding the risk for deterioration of non-emergency disease conditions. As it is unclear for how long the pandemic will last, we propose to implement telehealth as a solution to provide regular symptom monitoring compatible with social distancing guidelines during the pandemic and beyond. Telemedical assessment and prioritizing of high-risk patients for individual consults at outpatient services will have to be aligned with available outpatient capacity and local outbreak severity.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Westhofen, Thilo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Magistro, Giuseppe UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Lennartz, Simon UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Casuscelli, Jozefina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Stief, Christian UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Rodler, Severin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-319675
DOI:	10.1007/s15010-020-01511-7
Journal or Publication Title:	Infection
Publisher:	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Place of Publication:	HEIDELBERG
ISSN:	1439-0973
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Infectious Diseases Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31967