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Table 1 Overview of Corona contact points as supplementary system of primary outpatient care

From: Resilience of the primary health care system – German primary care practitioners’ perspectives during the early COVID-19 pandemic

Name

Description

COVID-19-specialized primary care practices (CSP)

These were set up in parallel to regular primary care to treat patients with (suspected) COVID-19 and integrated into existing primary care practices

Outpatient infection centers (OIC)

These offer care for the same patients with (suspected) COVID-19 at independent facilities external to regular medical practices

Swabbing points

These offer exclusively the measure of taking a swab without examination or treatment of a patient and can supplement an outpatient infection center or be designed as a stand-alone-institution