Panda Sanjeet, Somu Rashmi, Maitre Nathalie, Levin Garrett, Singh Ajay Pratap
Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso 4800 Alberta Avenue, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.
Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA.
Children (Basel). 2021 Oct 6;8(10):889. doi: 10.3390/children8100889.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the functioning and services of academic high-risk infant follow-up (HRIF) clinics throughout North America.
Prospective 25-question questionnaire survey through REDCAP links that was sent over 10 weeks, to 105 US and 10 Canadian programs. Finally, 59 of 105 US programs and 5 of 10 Canadian responses were analyzed using SAS version 9.4.
In the US, 67% of programs reported closures between 1-5 months, whereas in Canada 80% of programs closed for 1-3 months. In the US 86% of programs provided telemedicine visits and only 42.5% provided multidisciplinary HRIF telemedicine visits. We enumerated innovative approaches specifically for the conduct of Telemedicine visits, the need for the standardization of various tests and services in a telemedicine setting, and to emphasize the urgent need for more government funding to improve follow-up and developmental services to this fragile group of newborns.
新冠疫情对北美各地学术性高危婴儿随访（HRIF）诊所的运作和服务的影响。
通过REDCAP链接进行的前瞻性25题问卷调查，在10周内发送给105个美国项目和10个加拿大项目。最后，使用SAS 9.4版本对105个美国项目中的59个以及10个加拿大回复中的5个进行了分析。
在美国，67%的项目报告关闭1至5个月，而在加拿大，80%的项目关闭1至3个月。在美国，86%的项目提供远程医疗问诊，只有42.5%提供多学科HRIF远程医疗问诊。我们列举了专门用于开展远程医疗问诊的创新方法、在远程医疗环境中对各种检查和服务进行标准化的必要性，并强调迫切需要更多政府资金来改善对这一脆弱新生儿群体的随访和发育服务。
