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  • Health Services Research
  • Infectious Disease Epidemiology

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated rapid health service adaptation for managing mild cases at home.
  • Community-based management is crucial for the majority of COVID-19 patients experiencing mild illness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a telephone-based COVID-19 community monitoring service.
  • To describe the rapid implementation, demographics, and clinical characteristics of enrolled patients.
  • To evaluate the service's effectiveness using the RE-AIM framework.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective mixed-methods evaluation of a telephone-based monitoring service.
  • Utilized the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) framework.
  • Enrolled 850 COVID-19 positive patients, collecting demographic and clinical data.

Main Results:

  • 36% of patients were identified as high-risk for serious illness.
  • Prevalent risk factors included cardiovascular disease (37%), lung disease (30%), and age over 60 (26%).
  • Common ongoing symptoms were fatigue (55%), breathing issues (26%), and low mood (19%). No deaths occurred among participants.

Conclusions:

  • Telephone triage effectively stratified patients by risk for prolonged COVID-19 illness.
  • Telephone monitoring by health professionals shows significant potential for managing mild COVID-19 cases.
  • The implemented service demonstrated successful community management and patient safety.