COVID-19 Connect Care Workflows
This section gathers ideas about how to integrate Connect Care clinical content into workflows that support care of patients with COVID-19 illness.
Please see the COVID-19 Content page for information about testing, assessment, treatment guidance, order sets, documentation and other supports specifically designed to address the needs of COVID care, and the COVID-19 Resources page for links to supporting clinical guidance and protocols.
Initial Assessment
Ordering COVID-19 Tests
Reviewing Test Results
Risk Assessment
Problem Lists
Admission
Admission Orders
Selecting Clinical Services
Patients with confirmed COVID-19 illness are, as possible, admitted to COVID services and locations, which may be shared by more than one clinical service (e.g., General Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine). Patients with suspected or resolved COVID-19 are typically admitted to an inpatient service befitting their primary hospital problem, but may, due to pandemic pressures, need to be admitted to an alternate specialty. It is important to confirm and enter the correct clinical service in an admission order.
Changes to COVID-19 results and illness in hospital can lead to an intra-facility transfer between services. Sometimes the receiving service does not get updated in a patient's encounter record, necessitating corrective action in order for inpatient census reports to remain accurate.
Inpatient Care
Pre-rounding
Rounding
Intra-Facility Transfers
Mandatory Isolation
Mandatory Isolation for non-Compliant Patients
Process: Public Health Act provisions for Mandatory Isolation
Form: Section 44 Isolation Order (download and open in Adobe Acrobat)
Form: Cancellation of Section 44 Isolation Order (download and open in Adobe Acrobat)
Form: Section 39 Testing Order (download and open in Adobe Acrobat)
Form: Order to Apprehend an Isolation Patient (download and open in Adobe Acrobat)
Discharge
Follow-up for Pulmonary COVID Effects