Open AccessEvidence-Based National Consensus: Recommendations for Physiotherapy Management in COVID-19 in Acute Care Indian Setup
Author(s) -
Mariya P Jiandani,
Bela Agarwal,
Gaurang Baxi,
Sudeep Kale,
Titiksha Pol,
Anjali Bhise,
Unnati Pandit,
Jaimala Vijay Shetye,
Abhijit Diwate,
Umanjali Damke,
Savita Ravindra,
Prajakta Patil,
Raziya Nagarwala,
Pratibha Gaikwad,
Shabnam Agarwal,
Karan Madan,
Prasobh Jacob,
Praveen Surendran,
Narasimman Swaminathan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of critical care medicine/indian journal of critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-359X
pISSN - 0972-5229
DOI - 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23564
Subject(s) - delphi method , medicine , workforce , physical therapy , delphi , covid-19 , intraclass correlation , medline , pandemic , medical emergency , nursing , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , clinical psychology , psychometrics , statistics , mathematics , pathology , computer science , political science , law , economics , economic growth , operating system
With the Wuhan pandemic spread to India, more than lakhs of population were affected with COVID-19 with varying severities. Physiotherapists participated as frontline workers to contribute to management of patients in COVID-19 in reducing morbidity of these patients and aiding them to road to recovery. With infrastructure and patient characteristics different from the West and lack of adequate evidence to existing practices, there was a need to formulate a national consensus.