Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Virtual hospital model for COVID-19 shows good outcomes

Virtual hospital model for COVID-19 shows good outcomes

Data from a hospital-at-home telemedicine program involving 1,477 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia showed 40 needed hospitalization, eight required ventilation and two died, researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The program had a virtual observation unit that included one phone call from a nurse each day and a virtual acute care unit that included monitoring at least three times daily with access to a provider on-call.

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