COVID-19 Outpatient Resources
Topic Collection
January 13, 2021
Topic Collection: COVID-19 Outpatient Resources
This Topic Collection focuses on plans, tools, templates, and other immediately implementable resources to help with COVID-19 preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts, focusing on outpatient settings.
Please refer to CDC’s Coronavirus Disease 2019 webpage for the most up-to-date clinical guidance on COVID19 outbreak management.
If you have COVID-19 best or promising practices, plans, tools, or templates to share with your peers, please visit the ASPR TRACIE Information Exchange COVID-19 Information Sharing Page (registration required) and place your resources under the relevant topic area. Resources specific to workforce protection and sustainability can be placed under the COVID-19 Outpatient Resources Topic.
General Resources
This document lists factors that family physicians should consider in reopening or keeping their practices open for in-person visits.
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This page compiles links to interim and updated guidance developed by the AAP on topics related to clinical care for infants, children, and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This guidance was developed to help pediatric practices determine when to test for severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.
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This article identifies cardiovascular tests and procedures that have the potential to be deferred during the COVID-19 pandemic. The list is a starting point for discussion between clinicians and patients based on the patient’s clinical status, hospital capacity, and staff availability.
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This resource provides responses to frequently asked questions as it pertains to optimizing obstetric care in the context during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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This page features clinical issues and guidance on management of non-emergent operations and triage of elective procedures. Topics covered include non-emergent operations, cancer care, licensing and certification, trauma care, workforce, personnel protection, and patient information.
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During a pandemic, healthcare facilities may need telehealth/medicine capabilities. Telehealth policies help to prevent potential exposure in the workplace, thus limiting the impact to the health of the healthcare workforce. This guide is a resource for administrators to initiate those capabilities.
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This page links to the emergency use authorization (EUA) Fact Sheets for Health Care Providers for Bamlanivimab and Casirivimab/Imdevimab, and provides information about coding and Medicare payment for monoclonal COVID-19 infusion and about billing for monoclonal antibody COVID-19 infusion administration.
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Cleveland Clinic. (2020).
COVID-19.
(Added 5/14/2020.)
This frequently updated page provides resources to assist medical professionals responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources are organized under the following topic areas: overview, detection, personal protective equipment recommendations, protecting against the spread, care considerations, workforce redeployment, caregiver, ambulatory, bioethics, virtual visits, emergency department, intensive care unit, managerial, operating room, and research.
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This interactive resource guide provides information about the CARES Act, specifically about funding directed to states, local governments, and community organizations through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to support people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. PDF of guide: https://articulateusercontent.com/rise/courses/8YD4u90jeAFP0Yyp-OZxE6KnXGN5V4g8/TOa6jg9JsZPtIq2M-CARES%2520ACT%2520HUD%2520funding.pdf
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Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation & Improvement Center. (2020).
Coronavirus (COVID-19).
(Added 5/21/2020.)
This page is a compilation of COVID-19 related resources for hospital-based, pre-hospital, and community-based providers. Resources are categorized under Multisystem Inflammatory Response Syndrome in Children, pre-hospital and hospital preparedness, family readiness, school and childcare, personal protective equipment and essential skills, and mental and behavioral health. The page is updated as new resources become available.
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This frequently updated page includes operational and patient care information for employees responding to COVID-19. Resources are focused on staff safety and well-being, operations policies and signage, job aids, procedural guidelines, and inpatient and ambulatory care clinical guidelines.
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This page includes COVID-19 testing guidance as well as emergency department, inpatient, and outpatient treatment guidelines.
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This document summarizes promising practices for the COVID-19 pandemic that were submitted by community health centers. Each summary provides a link to the original submission and is organized under 13 administrative or clinical categories including: policies and protocols; transformed workflows; drive through/curbside services; at-home care; integrated care (behavioral health and pharmacy); dental care; health information technology; patient communication and outreach; staff and organizational communication; personnel; safety and infection control.
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This frequently updated page includes resources to assist providers and staff in managing patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources are in the categories of personal protective equipment and infection control, clinical, signage, handouts in multiple languages, and patient messaging. Included resources are for inpatient and ambulatory settings as well as drive through testing sites and telehealth.
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Plans, Tools, and Templates
This document offers considerations to physicians determining when to resume nonessential, in-person primary care services in their practices.
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This toolkit offers information that can help practices develop and implement a telehealth strategy for the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes a billing and coding table, and list of common modifiers and place of service codes.
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This checklist guides physicians in preparing their offices for COVID-19.
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This website offers in-person, telehealth, virtual/digital, and audio-only scenarios for coding.
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This document outlines a list of steps physician practices should take before reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes a pre-visit screening script template, frequently asked questions about privacy and confidentiality, and links other resources related to relaxation of stay at home restrictions.
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This checklist guides pharmacy personnel working in outpatient care settings in protecting themselves and minimizing transmission of COVID-10 in the workplace.
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The information and resources contained in this Toolkit, developed by nephrologists and nephrology team members, discuss general considerations across nephrology care settings, outpatient dialysis, dialysis in the acute setting, urgent start peritoneal dialysis, home dialysis, and the care of the transplant patient.
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The physician resources on this page include several COVID-19 clinical algorithms for screening by telephone or in physician practices or clinics.
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This page includes a checklist to assist outpatient dialysis facilities in their COVID-19 preparedness and response. The page also includes infection control guidance for outpatient hemodialysis facilities.
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This checklist summarizes key actions for dialysis facilities in COVID-19 hotspots.
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This algorithm provides evaluation and testing guidance for possible COVID-19 disease in an ambulatory setting.
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This document includes several physician office screening tools including: an appointment line/nursing triage screening algorithm, office management of person under investigation for COVID-19 algorithm, personal protective equipment donning and doffing instructions, COVID-19 management tips, and a patient room log.
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This one-pager developed jointly by the College of Urgent Care Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians assists clinicians in determining whether suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients should be discharged to their homes or transferred to an emergency department.
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This COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) diagnostic testing database tool allows users to determine by platform type, sample type, laboratory or test kit requirement, and name of test or company the wide array of diagnostic tests available in the marketplace. Links are included to each test's emergency use authorization for additional information. The database is updated as new tests are authorized.
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This checklist identifies financial, operational, staffing, and procedural issues for medical practices to consider as they prepare to resume operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. A webinar describing these issues is also linked.
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This page - updated frequently - provides protocols and resources for providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Included are patient care resources (ambulatory triage and workflow, discharge guidelines, worker protections, guidelines and treatments, reopening of services), information for practices (forms, guidance, signage), communications and provider resources, and links to additional information.
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This resource packet guides health centers implementing telework or reduced staffing of non-clinical services and functions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It offers best practices, decision trees, checklists, and other sample resources.
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This webpage includes resources for providers, prescribers, and patients to help support the safe and appropriate use of COVID-19 infusion therapies. Resources include a searchable COVID-19 antibody treatment locator, antibody therapy guidebooks and playbooks, order sets, checklists, flowsheets, coding guide, frequently asked questions, patient education resources, and other tools.
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This playbook provides information, including pathways and checklists, for sites that plan to administer COVID-19 treatment under an Emergency Use Authorization. It is currently focused on monoclonal antibody treatment delivered via infusion in an outpatient setting and will evolve as other treatments are developed.
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This document includes an algorithm that can assist healthcare practitioners in evaluating and treating pregnant persons with known exposure and/or those with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 (persons under investigation).
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This page includes COVID-19 clinical pathways for adults, pediatrics, labor and delivery, and telehealth in various settings.
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This interactive map displays locations across the U.S. that recently received shipments of Bamlanivimab or Casirivimab/Imdevimab to assist clinicians and patients in determining availability of monoclonal antibody treatments.
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Agencies and Organizations
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Health Center Resource Clearinghouse.
COVID-19.
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