id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-352726-ep0xfen2 Ali, Mohammed K. Preparing Primary Care for COVID-20 2020-06-09 .txt text/plain 1339 79 48 Finally, primary care offices are capable of managing patients flow across home, clinic, hospital, and post-acute care; recent lifting of data sharing restrictions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will enhance this coordination. Robust primary care infrastructure for ILI facilitates access and surge capacity; enables timely diagnosis and treatment; and could reduce health disparities in the incidence of pneumonias, hospitalizations, and related morbidity and mortality. (1) definitions and standards for evaluating and managing cases; (2) outbreak protocols giving primary care offices a central role in early detection, local safety, and surveillance; (3) clinical decision-making tools including rapid tests and prediction rules; and (4) supportive policies. At the national level, higher primary care participation in the CDC's Outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet) will help identify regional hotspots where focused testing, contact tracing, and isolation in the next COVID outbreak can support rapid containment. Detection of excess influenza severity: associating respiratory hospitalization and mortality data with reports of influenza-like illness by primary care physicians ./cache/cord-352726-ep0xfen2.txt ./txt/cord-352726-ep0xfen2.txt