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The Patient Navigator mirrors the provincial online self-assessment questions, with an added layer of triage by a patient’s primary-care provider or an on-call provider if they don’t normally have access to primary care.

‘Digital shield’ offers physically distant triage tool

Posted onMay 19, 2020

Family Medicine professor Dr. Daniel Pepe describes it as “a digital shield” – a virtual COVID-19 triage tool designed to protect health-care workers while providing rapid care for patients now in use across Southwestern Ontario….

https://news.westernu.ca/2020/05/digital-shield-offers-physically-distant-triage-tool/

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