Innovative COVID-19 Programs to Rapidly Serve New Mexico : Project ECHO.
Public Health Rep
; 136(1): 39-46, 2021.
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| ID: mdl-33216679
ABSTRACT
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) at the University of New Mexico is a telementoring program that uses videoconferencing technology to connect health care providers in underserved communities with subject matter experts. In March 2020, Project ECHO created 10 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) telementoring programs to meet the public health needs of clinicians and teachers living in underserved rural and urban regions of New Mexico. The newly created COVID-19 programs include 7 weekly sessions (Community Health Worker [in English and Spanish], Critical Care, Education, First-Responder Resiliency, Infectious Disease Office Hours, and Multi-specialty) and 3 one-day special sessions. We calculated the total number of attendees, along with the range and standard deviation, per session by program. Certain programs (Critical Care, Infectious Disease Office Hours, Multi-specialty) recorded the profession of attendees when available. The Project ECHO research team collected COVID-19 infection data by county from March 11 through May 31, 2020. During that same period, 9765 health care and general education professionals participated in the COVID-19 programs, and participants from 31 of 35 (89%) counties in New Mexico attended the sessions. Our initial evaluation of these programs demonstrates that an interprofessional clinician group and teachers used the Project ECHO network to build a community of practice and social network while meeting their educational and professional needs. Because of Project ECHO's large reach, the results of the New Mexico COVID-19 response suggest that the rapid use of ECHO telementoring could be used for other urgent national public health problems.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
População Rural
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Pessoal de Saúde
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Serviços de Saúde Comunitária
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Tutoria
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COVID-19
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Capacitação em Serviço
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Mexico
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Public Health Rep
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos