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- Title
Outpatient Clinic in Obesity Care During COVID-19 Outbreak: Physically Far, Virtually Near. Brief Correspondence on a Single Center Experience: Cohort Study.
- Authors
Pizza, Francesco; D'Antonio, Dario; Dell'Isola, Chiara; Lucido, Francesco Saverio; Gambardella, Claudio
- Abstract
Regarding established patients and patients attending our bariatric center for the first time, we recorded an impressive positive response to TM, with the possibility to remotely manage patients in 95% of cases. Nine established patients (2.3%) chose to be re-scheduled, rather than to be virtually followed up, while 12 patients (3.1%) patients preferred to contact their General Practitioner. Keywords: COVID-19; Obesity surgery; Telemedicine; Remote counseling EN COVID-19 Obesity surgery Telemedicine Remote counseling 3869 3873 5 07/12/21 20210801 NES 210801 Introduction Bariatric patients represent a constantly increasing subset of frail subjects. A total of 339/393 patients (86.3%) were eligible for TM (108 established patients, 98 undergoing surgery within 30 days, and 133 for the first time referred to our center).
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; OUTPATIENT medical care; PATIENT-professional relations; COVID-19; MEDICAL personnel as patients
- Publication
Obesity Surgery, 2021, Vol 31, Issue 8, p3869
- ISSN
0960-8923
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1007/s11695-021-05433-7