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Did the organization of primary care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic influence quality and safety? – an international survey
العنوان: | Did the organization of primary care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic influence quality and safety? – an international survey |
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المؤلفون: | Mats Eriksson, Karin Blomberg, Eva Arvidsson, Esther Van Poel, Sara Ares-Blanco, Maria Pilar Astier-Peña, Claire Collins, Jonila Gabrani, Neophytos Stylianou, Victoria Tkachenko, Sara Willems |
المصدر: | BMC Health Services Research, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2024) |
بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2024. |
سنة النشر: | 2024 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | COVID-19, International comparison, Interprofessional collaboration, Multiprofessional, Infection prevention and control, Pricov-19, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
الوصف: | Abstract Background Changes in demographics with an older population, the illness panorama with increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases, and the shift from hospital care to home-based care place demand on primary health care, which requires multiprofessional collaboration and team-based organization of work. The COVID-19 pandemic affected health care in various ways, such as heightened infection control measures, changing work practices, and increased workload. Objectives This study aimed to investigate the association between primary care practices’ organization, and quality and safety changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Data were collected from 38 countries in a large online survey, the PRICOV-19 study. For this paper, the participating practices were categorized as “Only GPs”, comprising practices with solely general practitioners (GPs) and/or GP trainees, without any other health care professionals (n = 1,544), and “Multiprofessional,” comprising practices with at least one GP or GP trainee and one or more other health professionals (n = 3,936). Results Both categories of practices improved in infection control routines when compared before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A larger proportion of the multiprofessional practices changed their routines to protect vulnerable patients. Telephone triage was used in more “Multiprofessional” practices, whereas “Only GPs” were more likely to perform video consultations as an alternative to physical visits. Both types of practices reported that the time to review new guidelines and scientific literature decreased during the pandemic. However, both had more meetings to discuss directives than before the pandemic. Conclusions Multiprofessional teams were keener to introduce changes to the care organization to protect vulnerable patients. However, practices with only GPs were found to be more aligned with video consultations, perhaps reflecting the close patient-doctor relationship. In contrast, telephone triage was used more in multiprofessional teams. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1472-6963 |
Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1472-6963 |
DOI: | 10.1186/s12913-024-11173-y |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/d16249b24a3f413b8de37400ad0cb100 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.16249b24a3f413b8de37400ad0cb100 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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