Diabetes care during COVID 19: Experience in telemedicine from a developing country

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2020
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García-Villasante, E.
Baca-Carrasco, V.
Gutierrez-Ortiz, C.
Pinedo-Torres, I.
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Abstract
The authors detail with accuracy the main telemedicine problems and most of them are being seen in our country. We work at Endocrinology department in a reference hospital in Peru which is in fifth position of confirmed cases of COVID 19 worldwide. Our main concern is about diabetic patients because they are at major risk to get infected and develop severe forms of disease.The use of telemedicine in Peru is incipient. On March 2020, the Peruvian Ministry of Health stablish the official pathway for its implementation. Since then, teleconsultations have been developing slowly and not uniformly in the health centers...
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12805/4728
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.07.046
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