Maintaining high-quality care for urological patients is a challenge during and after the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We observe an increasing volume of postponed elective visits at our tertiary care hospital, holding the risk for deterioration of non-emergency disease conditions. As it is unclear for how long the pandemic will last, we propose to implement telehealth as a solution to provide regular symptom monitoring compatible with social distancing guidelines during the pandemic and beyond. Telemedical assessment and prioritizing of high-risk patients for individual consults at outpatient services will have to be aligned with available outpatient capacity and local outbreak severity. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s15010-020-01511-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, telehealth, Patient management, Elective patients, 【초록키워드】 Coronavirus disease 2019, pandemic, social distancing, severity, hospital, risk, Local, Symptom, Deterioration, outbreak, Patient, disease, Care, Volume, supplementary material, maintaining, high-risk patient, observé, conditions, aligned, 【제목키워드】 clinics, hidden,