WeChat monitoring of home COVID patients
WeChat-based telemedicine monitored 74 home-quarantined COVID-19 patients; 8% needed admission and all recovered.
Source
Monitoring and Management of Home-Quarantined Patients With COVID-19 Using a WeChat-Based Telemedicine System: Retrospective Cohort Study
Study at a glance
- Design
- Other — WeChat telemedicine monitoring programme for home-quarantined COVID-19 patients (not randomised)
- N
- N=74 · 6 (8%) hospitalised after detected deterioration; all 74 recovered
- Population
- Home-quarantined patients with COVID-19
- Outcome
- Detection of deterioration requiring hospital admission
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What they did
Investigators used a WeChat telemedicine system with structured symptom assessment to monitor home-quarantined COVID-19 patients and escalate care when deterioration was detected.
What they found
Among 74 patients, 6 (8%) were hospitalised after detected deterioration; all 74 recovered.
The limits
What it doesn't show
Small single-system retrospective series without a concurrent control group cannot prove telemedicine caused recovery.
Key terms
- WeChat telemedicine
- Messaging-app platform for remote COVID monitoring.
- Home quarantine
- Isolation and care at home for mild COVID.
- Escalation
- Hospital referral when deterioration detected.
- Retrospective cohort
- Outcomes described after care already delivered.
- Symptom assessment
- Structured indicators used to track status.
- ECMO
- Advanced life support mentioned for one severe case.
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N monitored:
Common questions
N?
74.
Admitted?
6 (8%).
Recovered?
All 74.
Platform?
WeChat.
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