COVID-19 Outpatient Resources
Topic Collection
November 23, 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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Some healthcare providers and systems have been providing hospital-level care in patient’s homes for years; others have implemented acute care delivery at home models in response to overcrowding at hospitals due to COVID-19. This tip sheet provides an overview of characteristics of various types of acute care delivery at home programs to help healthcare providers better understand this care model.
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This updated page offers guidance about the regulatory requirements for Point-of-Care (POC) testing, specimen collection & handling, help with performing POC tests, reporting requirements and frequently asked questions about POC Testing.
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These updated guidelines detail process and handling of clinical specimens for COVID-19 by specimen type and priority, and address storage and shipping.
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This updated page recommends infection prevention and control (IPC) practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, and particular IPC practices when caring for a patient with suspected or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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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 page provides various resources for clinicians to support the administration of monoclonal antibodies. Resources include provider fact sheets on currently authorized monoclonal antibody treatments, therapy administration resources, resources for patients, frequently asked questions, and treatment guidelines
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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 resource page provides information about monoclonal antibody therapeutics currently authorized for the treatment of COVID-19, including links to an outpatient administration playbook, a communications toolkit, and a calculator for infusion sites.
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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 frequently updated toolkit includes tabulated information about changes to the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma (CCP); detailed information about blood donor referrals after COVID-19 vaccination or CCP infusion; flowcharts on investigational and EUA use, collection, and testing and labeling of CCP, and a sample flowchart for updating a deferral policy for vaccines to help evaluate donor risk following vaccination.
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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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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 algorithm depicts the clinical pathway for assessing children with COVID-19.
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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 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 template protocol is intended to assist state emergency medical services (EMS) offices and EMS medical directors planning for their personnel to assist in the administration of monoclonal antibodies for the treatment or post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19.
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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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This toolkit assists community health centers and U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-assisted housing and homeless programs interested in partnering to provide public and low-income housing residents and people experiencing homelessness with COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and health care.
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Treatment
This frequently updated toolkit includes tabulated information about changes to the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma (CCP); detailed information about blood donor referrals after COVID-19 vaccination or CCP infusion; flowcharts on investigational and EUA use, collection, and testing and labeling of CCP, and a sample flowchart for updating a deferral policy for vaccines to help evaluate donor risk following vaccination.
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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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These frequently asked questions - expected to be updated as additional information becomes available - provide details about the diagnosis and treatment of vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) occurring following COVID-19 vaccination.
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The goal of occupational therapy is to be able to get patients back to where they want to be, via a mix of physical rehabilitation, cognitive activity analysis, and improving safety, function, and independence. ASPR TRACIE interviewed Jamie Wilcox, OTD, OTR/L, Kelsey Peterson, OTD, OTR/L, Neuro-IFRAH® Certified, and Carnie Lewis, OTD, OTR/L, Neuro-IFRAH® Certified, who work in acute care settings at the Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California to learn more about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on their jobs. Heather Parsons, the Vice President of Federal Affairs for the American Occupational Therapy Association, also participated in the interview.
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Respiratory therapists (RT) are key members of healthcare teams in a variety of settings. Over the past year, they have played a significant role in the treatment and management of COVID-19 patients. ASPR TRACIE interviewed Katie Mattare, BS, RRT, Clinical Coordinator for the Adult Respiratory Therapy Department at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland to gain insight into the RT experience during the pandemic.
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Physical therapists (PTs) are an integral component of healthcare teams in a variety of settings (e.g., emergency departments, acute care settings, home health care, and outpatient settings). In hospitals (i.e., acute care and/or inpatient rehabilitation), they may help develop treatment plans, teach patients how to use exercise techniques, and provide hands-on manual therapy to help with healing and improve function. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the way PTs were able to provide care, while the number of patients who needed both inpatient and outpatient physical therapy increased. ASPR TRACIE met with Lindsay Harmon-Matthews, PT, DPT, MPH, J.J. Kuczynski, PT, DPT, OCS, Anthony Ganim, PT, MPT, MBA, and Michael Martin, PT, MPT (The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and other affiliations) to learn more about their experiences
caring for COVID-19 patients during and after hospitalization.
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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 algorithm depicts the clinical pathway for assessing children with COVID-19.
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The summary highlights recommendations for payment, better evidence, and state allocation. The full text of the report is linked from the top of the page.
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This illustrated article provides a comprehensive literature review of long haul COVID. The authors review its pathophysiology, organ-specific sequelae, and considerations for multidisciplinary patient care.
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This rapid, dynamic review discusses the long-term effects of COVID-19, based on the experiences of patients who have experienced them, expert consensus, and published evidence. It also addresses how care services should respond and articulates questions for future research.
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This blog post by the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) summarizes current knowledge about Long COVID. It includes links to additional research information and a video of the December 2020 NIH-hosted Virtual Workshop on Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19.
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This web page hosts various tools and resources related to monoclonal antibody treatment for healthcare providers, including a decision support tool, a screening tool, and patient handouts in multiple languages. These materials may be found under the "Monoclonal Antibody Treatment" heading, but users may find other COVID-19 resources on the page useful as well.
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This regularly updated table summarizes key information for all outpatient therapies currently authorized in the U.S. for treatment of mild-moderate COVID-19.
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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 report looks at the symptoms of long COVID, who is affected, what help can be offered to those affected, how big of a problem it is, and conclusions and recommendations.
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This resource offers a clinical case definition for long COVID and describes the process used to achieve consensus.
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Health Center Resource Clearinghouse.
COVID-19.
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