Rethinking Regional Neurologic Care in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Era
source:JAMA 2020-07-02
[Medicine]
Many hospitals have taken great steps to limit admissions and nonessential services in anticipation of a large surge in visits from patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for the subsequent months.1 Overtriage, the unnecessary mobilization of patients to highly specialized medical centers,2 places a significant threat on hospital capacity at receiving medical centers, many of which are the same centers at risk of overcrowding in the new era of COVID-19. Reducing overtriage for patients with neurologic disease and finding other ways to care for these patients at a distance is more important now than ever.