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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 11/2021

01-11-2021 | Care

What Did the COVID Stress Test Reveal About How We Should Deliver Care in the USA?

Author: Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 11/2021

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Consider COVID’s lessons for the future, and you will likely think of the public health miracle of rapid vaccine development, stumbles in public health messaging, and the concurrent pandemic of partisan misinformation. But COVID has lessons for personal health delivery too. Health services researchers used the COVID stress test to look for cracks in our delivery system. At JGIM, we have assembled a collection of our published COVID articles (https://​link.​springer.​com/​collections/​jhfbddgebc), and in this article, we review some of those and other attempts to draw COVID’s lessons on the outcomes of access, value, and provider wellness in the United States. …
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Metadata
Title
What Did the COVID Stress Test Reveal About How We Should Deliver Care in the USA?
Author
Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH
Publication date
01-11-2021
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Keyword
Care
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 11/2021
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-021-07150-4

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