Zhongguo quanke yixue (Apr 2022)

Expert Advice on Community-based Grid Containment of COVID-19 Pandemic by the General Practice Network & Regional Medical Consortium

  • Specialty Committee for Primary Medicine Education, China Medicine Education Association, Commission of General Practice, Health Exchange and Cooperation Cross the Taiwan Straits Association, Guangdong Primary Healthcare Association, General Practitioner Branch of Guangdong Medical Doctor Association

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12114/j.issn.1007-9572.2022.0051
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 10
pp. 1162 – 1171

Abstract

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The COVID-19 containment has become a top global public health concern. China has obtained a phased achievement in containing COVID-19 pandemic, during the process, primary medical institutions and general practitioner teams in regional medical consortiums have played a key role. To better guide and standardize the development of regional medical consortiums, give full play to the bridge role and grid management of general medicine in COVID-19 pandemic containment, and consolidate the achievements of COVID-19 pandemic containment further, we invited a group of related experts to develop the Expert Advice on Community-based Grid Containment of COVID-19 Pandemic by the General Practice Network & Regional Medical Consortium (the First Version for Trial Implementation) (hereinafter referred to as the Expert Advice) following in-depth analysis and thorough consideration of literature review results, suggestions extensively collected and practical evidence, which mainly includes the following aspects: the essential characters of the general practice network & regional medical consortium, organizational structure, contents and separation of responsibilities and duties, operation mechanism, content of the work, workflow, training and assessment. We hope the Expert Advice will contribute to the construction and operation of the general practice network & regional medical consortium in various regions for COVID-19 containment.

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