The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare, with its far-reaching effects seeping into chronic disease evaluation and treatment. Our tertiary wound care center was specially designed to deliver the highest quality care to wounded patients. Pre-pandemic, we were able to ensure rapid treatment via validated protocols delivered by a co-localized multidisciplinary team within the hospital setting. The pandemic has disrupted our model's framework, and we have worked to adapt our workflow without sacrificing quality of care. Using the modified Donabedian model of quality assessment, we present an analysis of pre- and intra-pandemic characteristics of our center. In this way, we hope other providers can use this framework for identifying evolving problems within their practice so that quality care can continue to be delivered to all patients.
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July 27 2020
Ensuring Quality Care in the COVID-19 Era: Applying the Donabedian Model to Tertiary Wound Care Center Practices
J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 20-080.
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Received:
April 27 2020
Accepted:
June 26 2020
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Jenna C. Bekeny, Elizabeth G. Zolper, John S. Steinberg, Jayson N. Atves, Carol Deane Benedict, Kenneth L. Fan, Cameron M. Akbari, Christopher E. Attinger, Karen K. Evans; Ensuring Quality Care in the COVID-19 Era: Applying the Donabedian Model to Tertiary Wound Care Center Practices. J Am Podiatr Med Assoc doi: https://doi.org/10.7547/20-080
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