Author ORCID Identifier
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-14-2020
Abstract
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, US federal and state governments have implemented wide-ranging stay-at-home recommendations as a means to reduce spread of infection. As a consequence, many US healthcare systems and practices have curtailed ambulatory clinic visits—pillars of care for patients with heart failure (HF). In this context, synchronous audio/video interactions, also known as virtual visits (VVs), have emerged as an innovative and necessary alternative. This scientific statement outlines the benefits and challenges of VVs, enumerates changes in policy and reimbursement that have increased the feasibility of VVs during the COVID-19 era, describes platforms and models of care for VVs, and provides a vision for the future of VVs.
Keywords
COVID-19 (disease), communicable diseases, coronavirus infections
Publication Title
Journal of Cardiac Failure
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© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
Recommended Citation
Eiran Z. Gorodeski MDMPHFHFSA , Parag Goyal MDMSc , Zachary L. Cox PharmDFHFSA , Jennifer T. Thibodeau MDMSCSFHFSA , Rebecca Reay ACNP-BCCHFN , Kismet Rasmusson DNPFNPFHFSA , Joseph G. Rogers MD , Randall C. Starling MDMPHFHFSA , Virtual Visits for Care of Patients with Heart Failure in the Era of COVID-19: A Statement from the Heart Failure Society of America, Journal of Cardiac Failure (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2020.04.008