作者
Sina Azadnajafabad, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Negar Rezaei, Erfan Ghasemi, Shohreh Naderimagham, Mehrdad Azmin, Esmaeil Mohammadi, Kosar Jamshidi, Nima Fattahi, Hossein Zokaei, Ashkan Mehregan, Bahman Damerchilu, Pouya Fathi, Hossein Erfani, Abbas Norouzinejad, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Hamidreza Jamshidi, Reza Malekzadeh, Bagher Larijani, Farshad Farzadfar
发表日期
2022/7
期刊
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
卷号
11
期号
7
页码范围
1069
出版商
Kerman University of Medical Sciences
简介
Background: The most recent emerging infectious disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is pandemic now. Iran is a country with community transmission of the disease. Telehealth tools have been proved to be useful in controlling public health disasters. We developed an online self-screening platform to offer a population-wide strategy to control the massive influx to medical centers.
Methods: We developed a platform operating based on given history by participants, including sex, age, weight, height, location, primary symptoms and signs, and high risk past medical histories. Based on a decision-making algorithm, participants were categorized into four levels of suspected cases, requiring diagnostic tests, supportive care, not suspected cases. We made comparisons with Iran STEPs (STEPwise approach to Surveillance) 2016 study and data from the Statistical Centre of Iran to assess population …
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