The well-being of the health care workforce is the cornerstone of every well-functioning health system. As a result of the pandemic, medical healthcare providers are under an enormous amount of workload pressure along with increased total health expenditures. The overwhelming burden of COVID-19 illness could lead to caregiver burnout. Direct-to-consumer telemedicine can enable patients to connect with their healthcare provider at a distance. This virtual platform could be used by smartphones or webcam-enabled computers and allows physicians to effectively screen patients with early signs of COVID-19 before they reach to hospital.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology. 2020 Apr 04 [Epub ahead of print]
Bobak Moazzami, Niloofar Razavi-Khorasani, Arash Dooghaie Moghadam, Ermia Farokhi, Nima Rezaei
Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran., Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran; Research Center for Immunodefiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: .