id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-351314-atsuh8e2 Bryson-Cahn, Chloe A Novel Approach for a Novel Pathogen: using a home assessment team to evaluate patients for 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) 2020-03-12 .txt text/plain 1255 67 45 Safe evaluation of persons for suspected infection with a special pathogen (including SARS-CoV-2) in the traditional healthcare environment is costly and resource intensive. It requires specialized rooms, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), monitored donning and doffing, logistically-complicated patient transportation from the community to the healthcare facility and back (typically through emergency medical services), and appropriate decontamination of transport and hospital environments. 4 The patient is evaluated by the physician, who gathers a focused history and All involved HAT members complete a daily log including temperature and respiratory and gastrointestinal symptom reporting through employee health for 14 days or until SARS-CoV-2 testing returns negative from the index visit. This model benefits both the public health and clinical healthcare systems by increasing safety and efficiency while reducing the costs and complexity of SARS-CoV-2 testing for patients who do not require emergency evaluation or hospitalization. ./cache/cord-351314-atsuh8e2.txt ./txt/cord-351314-atsuh8e2.txt