Table 7 Questions about patients’ advice
If a patient comes to your pharmacy with respiratory symptoms | Never | Rarely | Often | Always |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Do you ask questions about travel history? | 9 (2.9%) | 21 (6.8%) | 92 (29.7%) | 188 (60.0%) |
Do you ask the patient if he had contact with a confirmed case COVID-19 | 17 (5.5%) | 22 (7.1%) | 76 (24.5%) | 195 (62.9%) |
Do you ask him if he had contact with travelers coming from the affected area | 13 (4.2%) | 26 (8.4%) | 84 (27.1%) | 187 (60.3%) |
Do you offer patients awareness brochures? | No: 223 (71.9%) | Yes: 87 (28.1%) | ||
How do you behave in these situations? | Call the physician | Call the MOPH | Laboratory for testing | Preventive advicea |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Flu-like symptoms with, during the last 14 days, history of travel to infected areas/Or contact with a COVID-19 case | 80 (25.8%) | 196 (63.2%) | 140 (45.2%) | 17 (37.7%) |
Flu-like symptoms without a history of travel to infected areas or contact with confirmed COVID-19 case | 165 (53.2%) | 51 (16.5%) | 79 (25.5%) | 162 (52.3%) |
Corona suggestive symptoms (fever, dry cough, dyspnea) | 147 (47.4%) | 196 (63.2%) | 158 (51.0%) | 127 (41.0%) |
Patient with a Positive COVID-19 PCR test, with or without respiratory symptoms | 110 (35.5%) | 266 (85.8%) | 59 (19.0%) | 120 (38.7%) |
Patient panicking due to suspected exposure | 106 (34.2%) | 102 (32.9%) | 159 (51.3%) | 184 (59.4%) |
Patient panicking without symptoms or exposure | 62 (20.0%) | 7 (2.3%) | 55 (17.7%) | 264 (85.2%) |