Covid-19

Maintaining essential rehabilitation services across the care continuum

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ID21881076
AuthorsJanet Prvu Bettger (0000-0001-9708-8413, Duke University, corresponding author), Andrea Thoumi (0000-0003-2264-6390, Duke University), Victoria Marquevich (Austral University), Wouter De Groote (AZ Rivierenland), Linamara Rizzo Battistella (0000-0001-5275-0733, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo), Marta Imamura (0000-0003-0355-9697, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo), Valéria Dutra Ramos (0000-0002-4566-6637, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo), Vinicius Delgado Ramos (Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil), Ninie Wang (Pinetree Care Group, Beijing, P. R. China), Karsten E Dreinhöfer (0000-0001-6021-2804), Karsten E Dreinhoefer (Medical Park Berlin Humboldtmühle, Berlin, Germany), Ariane Mangar (University of Guyana), Dorcas B C Ghandi (christian medical college, vellore), Yee Sien Ng (0000-0003-1377-5852, Singapore General Hospital), Kheng Hock Lee (0000-0001-5841-6277, SingHealth), John Tan Wei Ming (Singapore General Hospital), Yong‐Hao Pua (0000-0003-2313-9665, Singapore General Hospital), Yong Hao Pua (Physiotherapy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore), Marco Inzitari (0000-0002-3796-0625, Parque Sanitario Pere Virgili), Blandina T Mmbaga (0000-0002-5550-1916, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre), Mathew J Shayo (Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre), Darren A Brown (0000-0002-4956-243X, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust), Marissa Carvalho (Duke University Health System), Mooyeon Oh-Park (Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, Montefiore Health System, New York, New York, USA), Mooyeon Oh‐Park (0000-0003-0115-0804, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital), Joel Stein (0000-0001-7038-0318, Columbia University)
Year2020
Volume5
Issue5
Pagese002670
Publication date2020-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBMJ Global Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2059-7908 • E-ISSN: 2059-7908
PublisherBMJ (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002670
PMID32376777
OpenAlexW3021807284
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited3

Rehabilitation services are essential: They need to continue during a pandemic and after as they are an essential component of high-value care offered for individuals across the lifespan to optimise physical and cognitive functioning to reduce disability. Rehabilitation care is affected: Globally, the response to COVID-19 is shifting rehabilitation services provided in all settings, introducing new burden on patients, families and healthcare workers. Measurement needed: A core set of measures needs to be adopted to monitor the health and functional outcomes for COVID-19 and other patients at risk for functional decline and to assess the quality, availability and accessibility of services today and as our nations recover. Telerehabilitation is necessary: Remote delivery of care and the necessary rapid scale-up of telehealth could be optimised if financial, infrastructure, resource, training and cybersecurity barriers were addressed. Collaboration can support needs in the home: Novel partnerships that include the rehabilitation community could enhance communication and delivery of safe and effective home-based rehabilitative strategies to mitigate the consequences of COVID-19 and reduced service capacity. Direct care providers need personal protective equipment: Rehabilitation providers in all settings should be ensured personal protective equipment and training to use it effectively

Business · Health care · Pandemic · Personal protective equipment · Physical therapy · Service delivery framework · Service provider · Telehealth · Telemedicine · Telerehabilitation · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders · Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 · Medicine · Nursing · Marketing · Rehabilitation

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