COVID-19 profiles in general practice: a latent class analysis.

Background: General practitioners (GPs) were on the front line of the COVID-19 outbreak. Identifying clinical profiles in COVID-19 might improve patient care and enable closer monitoring of at-risk profiles.

Objectives: To identify COVID-19 profiles in a population of adult primary care patients, and to determine whether the profiles were associated with negative outcomes and persistent symptoms.

Use of visual aids in general practice consultations: A questionnaire-based survey.

Objectives: Visual aids (VAs) seem effective to improve doctor-patient communication. The objective was to describe how VAs are used in consultation and what French general practitioners (GPs) expect of them.

Methods: Cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire among French GPs in 2019.

Initial characteristics and course of disease in patients with suspected COVID-19 managed in general practice: a prospective, multicentre cohort study.

Objectives: To describe and compare the initial clinical characteristics of a cohort of patients with suspected COVID-19 managed by general practitioners (GPs); to assess whether 3-month persistent symptoms were more frequent among confirmed cases than among no-COVID cases; and to identify factors predictive of persistent symptoms and adverse outcomes among confirmed cases.

Design And Setting: A comparative, prospective, multicentre cohort study in primary care in the Paris region of France.

Participants: 521 patients aged ≥18 with suspected COVID-19 were enrolled between March and May 2020.