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Arch Med Fam 2020; 22 (3)

Covid-19 in Long Term Care Institutions for the Elderly: thinking globally, acting locally and feeling individually

Rossini GA, Levites MR, Janaudis MA, M Ribeiro MJ

Language: Portugués
References: 32
Page: 135-143
PDF size: 236.95 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 outbreak that started in China in late 2019 has expanded rapidly, configuring a pandemic and health institutions, epidemiological surveillance, universities, and medical associations around the world are working to define – precisely the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the disease-causing virus, SARS-CoV-2. In this article, we present a reflection on the effects and the lessons learned from the pandemic in nursing homes in which we work as doctors, emphasizing how the practice of humanistic and patient-centered medicine has contributed to the institution of the necessary measures for containment and treatment of the disease, with reduction of its impacts.


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