@article{14175,
  author = {Tessa Zolnikov and Tara Rava Zolnikov},
  title = {A bottom-up approach addressing patient care and differential diagnosis amidst the Covid-19 response},
  abstract = {<jats:p> Patient care often refers to the broad spectrum of care, prevention, and treatment that a provider delivers, while the point of a differential diagnosis is to make a distinction between 2 or more conditions that share similar signs or symptoms. A broad differential should be considered for every single patient who is currently ill (eg, all patients with respiratory illnesses); without it, there will likely be an increase of misdiagnosis, unnecessary patient suffering, and an influx of patients to the emergency department. The COVID-19 response has forced many of these basic medical values aside, like providing differential diagnosis or practicing bedside manner through social interaction, while physicians struggle to continue care for patients. As a result, newly formed hospital and clinical policies may have dangerously traded everyday diagnosis and treatment of patients for the pandemic and quarantine recommendations. This type of assumptive medicine is based on a singular differential that can be detrimental to patients, who are more likely affected with more common illnesses, like bronchitis or pneumonia—or perhaps, even more threatening illnesses, like a pulmonary embolism, COPD exacerbation, congestive heart failure and even lung cancer. Although these new policies and reactions to COVID-19 are proactive, these actions could be at the cost of providing quality patient care for people who have not contracted COVID-19. </jats:p>},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {J Prim Care Community Health.},
  volume = {11},
  chapter = {215013272095986},
  pages = {215013272095986},
  month = {09/2020},
  issn = {2150-1327},
  doi = {10.1177/2150132720959860},
}