{"id":14629,"date":"2024-09-16T07:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2024-09-25T07:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T07:22:55","slug":"pandemics-are-here-to-stay-its-time-for-unity-both-nationally-and-globally-in-how-we-learn-and-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/pandemics-are-here-to-stay-its-time-for-unity-both-nationally-and-globally-in-how-we-learn-and-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemics are here to stay: It\u2019s time for unity, both nationally and globally, in how we learn and respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By <span class=\"given-name\">Julie<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"text surname\">Darbyshire et al.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source Sciencedirect<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"section-title u-h4 u-margin-l-top u-margin-xs-bottom\">Abstract<\/h2>\n<div id=\"abss0001\">\n<div id=\"spara006\" class=\"u-margin-s-bottom\">The protracted form of COVID-19 known as \u2018long covid\u2019 was first described in 2020. Its symptoms, course and prognosis vary widely; some patients have a multi-system, disabling and prolonged illness. In 2021, ring-fenced funding was provided to establish 90 long covid clinics in England; some clinics were also established in Scotland and Wales. The NIHR-funded LOCOMOTION project implemented a UK-wide quality improvement collaborative involving ten of these clinics, which ran from 2021 to 2023. At regular online meetings held approximately 8-weekly, participants prioritised topics, discussed research evidence and guidelines, and presented exemplar case histories and clinic audits. A patient advisory group also held a priority-setting exercise, participated in quality meetings and undertook a service evaluation audit. The goal of successive quality improvement cycles aimed at changing practice to align with evidence was sometimes hard to achieve because definitive evidence did not yet exist in this new condition; many patients had comorbidities; and clinics were practically constrained in various ways. Nevertheless, much progress was made and a series of \u2018best practice\u2019 guides was produced, covering general assessment and management; breathing difficulties; orthostatic tachycardia and other autonomic symptoms; fatigue and cognitive impairment; and vocational rehabilitation. This paper summarises key findings with the frontline clinician in mind.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-s2.0-S1470211824054290-main.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Julie\u00a0Darbyshire et al. Source Sciencedirect Abstract The protracted form of COVID-19 known as \u2018long covid\u2019 was first described in 2020. Its symptoms, course and prognosis vary widely; some patients have a multi-system, disabling and prolonged illness. In 2021, ring-fenced funding was provided to establish 90 long covid clinics in England; some clinics were also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-long-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14632,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions\/14632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}