Exploring the status of non-communicable disease care during the COVID-19 pandemic in 13 countries
South Africa
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Exploringthestatusofnon-communicablediseasecare
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Nasheeta Peer, Tshephang Mashiane, Michel Oris, Kibachio Joseph Mwangi, Sugitha Sureshkumar, Andre-Pascal Kengne
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Jan 12, 2024
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| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A lot of dieticians did do consulting online to accommodate patients that were too sick to visit the offices or felt unsafe to enter a hospital environment or to leave the house. | 1 |
3.8%
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| C8 | 1 |
3.8%
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| Chronic patients can access health-care advise and symptom management online. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Dietary counselling sessions and follow-ups. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Digital health could be used to conduct tele-consultations particularly for patients who are unable to present due to reasons such as disability, to the health facility or are COVID-19+. I believe this will assist patients greatly. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Doing consultations online, especially for stable chronic patients to prevent them from coming to the clinics unnecessarily e.g for scripts renewals. | 1 |
3.8%
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| Follow-ups can be done through online consultations. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| For established patients, patients on chronic medication, patients with non-complicated conditions. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| It would be to write scripts for patients that have access to internet or to employ more HCW in the community that can move home to home. | 1 |
3.8%
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| Keeping records of PPE to make sure sufficient stock is in the wards/departments so that staff and patients are protected. Being able to keep track of which hospitals/areas have more than sufficient stock of PPEs and share to ensure there is sufficient PPE for everyone to use when dealing with COVID-19 patients. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Local clinics,access to wifi. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Make telephonic consults more fissible. Be able to/monitor treatment sessions like dialysis offside. | 1 |
3.8%
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| Many patients attending CHCs for NCD care are older and from disadvantaged communities and do not have smart phones s perhaps telemedicine along with digital. But my views are form personal experience. More research can be done here in Soutrh African Public Health context. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Mobile platforms. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| No, vulnerable patients do not have access to technology. | 1 |
3.8%
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| Not too sure as Zoom is already a viable and useful alternative. Not sure we have need of any further "eHealth" services | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Outpatient department; initial telehealth consult to determine severity and whether in patient assessment is required, adjusting medicatins or add additional medications where needed and continuation of follow-up care. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Patients who don’t require to go to the hospital all the time for minor follow ups such as results or blood test interpretations can be telephonically or online to limit in traffic hospital. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| This can be intergrated anywhere in the infrustracture from early detection to disposal of medicines. | 2 |
7.7%
|
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| To call or chat to a doctor from ehealth to know if hospital visit is necessary or a condition or problem can be treated online via script renewal. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| Very limited application given in our setting,public patients don’t hve routine access to digital platforms. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| Yes. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| for outpatients and emergency consults to be able to advise on patient management at the peripheral hospitals. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| no_data | 2 |
7.7%
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.