ArticlePRiMER (Leawood, Kan.)2021
A Student Telephone Intervention for Primary Care Patient Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Telemedicine technologies and applications in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.Health informatics journalPooled it
- A Medical Student-Led Multipronged Initiative to Close the Digital Divide in Outpatient Primary Care.Applied clinical informatics · 2024Article
- Providing support in a pandemic: A medical student telehealth service for ambulatory patients with COVID-19.Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, medical students were unable to participate in clinical learning for several weeks. Many primary care patients no-showed to appointments and did not receive care. We implemented a telephone outreach program using medical students to call primary care patients who no-showed to appointments and did not receive care.
methodsA brief plan-do-study-act cycle was used to establish protocols and supervision for the phone calls.
resultsIn the first 5 weeks, of 3,274 scheduled patients there were 426 no-shows; 309 received outreach from students. We developed protocols for supervision, routing, and triage.
conclusionIt is feasible and educationally valuable to collaborate with students to reach patients who are at home due to the pandemic. Other practices could adapt this tool in similar situations.
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