Abstract
All healthcare providers have had to adapt and be flexible in order to respond to COVID-19. Nonetheless, the emphasis, particularly at the start of the outbreak, was on the impact and response of secondary and tertiary care. The primary care sector's responsibilities in the response focused on how it could help secondary and tertiary care centers respond. A small percentage of current research and evidence focuses on health services implications or applied public health approaches, with even fewer on the role of primary care and family medicine providers. So, while our scientific understanding of the virus and its subsequent clinical consequences has grown exponentially, information about primary care responses to COVID-19 in a variety of settings, as well as the interaction with patient perspectives and priorities, and broader public health responsibilities, remains significantly hazier.
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading around the world, wreaking havoc on public health, the economy, and society
Despite significant progress in clinical research leading to a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and the management of COVID19, limiting the continued spread of this virus and its variants has become an issue of increasing concern, as SARS-CoV-2 continues to wreak havoc across the world, with many countries experiencing a second or third wave of outbreaks of this viral illness attributed primarily to the emergence of mutant variants of the virus [2]
Burnout of Primary Care Physicians: The overwhelming burden of COVID-19 illness could lead to caregiver burnout
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading around the world, wreaking havoc on public health, the economy, and society. As the first point of contact for the COVID-19 outbreak, the primary healthcare system's response is critical, and it is assigned a key role on the frontlines in every country facing undifferentiated cases. Extensive research has shown that having access to a family physician improves patient satisfaction, hospitalization rates, clinical outcomes, and equity. These characteristics are precisely what put family doctors in a unique position in pandemic response [4]. In the event of a community-wide outbreak, family doctors may be the first point of contact This necessitates that family physicians deal with new diseases when there is limited information available about them, such as their modes of transmission, effective prevention practices, and therapeutic options. Criteria for exclusion: all other publications that do not have their main purpose in any of these areas or multiple studies and reviews were excluded
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