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.
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.
Introduction: The aim of this study was to identify, from an hospital point of view, the care pathways of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) between the ambulatory and in-hospital settings in two regions to the East of Paris (Val-de-Marne and Seine-et-Marne).
Methods: A qualitative multisite case study was conducted from January to October 2012 with hospital doctors managing patients with COPD. Semi-structured individual interviews were carried out with 46 hospital practitioners from the 25 main hospitals of this area.