COVID-19 IN PRIMARY HEALTHCARE BİRİNCİ BASAMAKTA COVID-19

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Acar H., Gökseven Y., ZEREN ÖZTÜRK G., ARICA S.

Ankara Medical Journal, cilt.20, sa.2, ss.444-467, 2020 (Scopus, TRDizin)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 20 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5505/amj.2020.92679
  • Dergi Adı: Ankara Medical Journal
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.444-467
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: COVID-19, family practice, pandemics, primary health care, SARS-CoV-2
  • Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
  • Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The coronaviruses are a large family of viruses infecting animals or humans and causing diseases, including Middle East Respiratory Syndrome(MERS, MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS, SARS-CoV). The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 emerged in December 2019 at the city of Wuhan, affecting the respiratory system leading to pneumonia, pulmonary edema, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, multiorgan failure, and death. Treatment studies are still ongoing, but hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, oseltamivir, favipiravir with some other anti-virals, and convalescent plasma therapy are prominent. The mortality rate of disease is 3.8% in the world, infesting many countries. Legal regulations have been made for the public to reduce transmission. Family health centers are providing healthcare services to every individual, for example, children, pregnant, patients with chronic diseases, patients with any complaint, and individuals who applied for health papers. In such a pandemic family, physicians also have to restrain the transmission of viruses between those people who applied. Therefore triage is needed to determine the high-risk patients as soon as possible. Both of them and other patients are protected in that way. After the filiation is done, suspected cases or COVID-19 contacted cases are kept in touch by family physicians to follow up their clinical status and check for isolation conditions. For all these reasons, we aimed to examine the family health centers coping with COVID-19.