Primary health care organization in the Covid-19 pandemic: scoping review

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Breno Ribeiro Gonçalves da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Corrêa, Ana Paula de Vechi, Uehara, Sílvia Carla da Silva André
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/204567
• topic: Atenção Primária à Saúde, organização & administração; COVID-19, prevenção & controle; Capacitação de Recursos Humanos em Saúde; Revisão; Primary Health Care, organization & administration; COVID-19, prevention & control; Health Human Resource Training; Review

OBJECTIVE Mapping available scientific evidence on the organization of primary health care services and professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic. METHODS This is a scoping review that followed the Joanna Briggs Institute method. Articles published in Portuguese, Spanish, and English from January 2020 to January 2021 in the CINAHL, Lilacs, Medline, PubMed, and Web of Science databases were included. RESULTS We selected 24 articles that presented the reorganization of primary health care services and professionals to care suspected or confirmed Covid-19 cases. Coordination measures to tackle this disease in primary health care help to control its infection, especially by the active search for respiratory symptoms, the detection of new cases, and the monitoring of confirmed cases. CONCLUSION This study presents an overview of how primary health care services and professionals organized themselves to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, addressing adjustments in infrastructure and care flows, such as establishing specific Covid-19 care units, separating infected and non-infected patients, using telemedicine as an alternative modality of care, and monitoring cases by applications and phone.