The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disrupted hospital organisations, with respect to both care and clinical research. Physiotherapists essentially from the US and the UK report their experiencea and offer practical solutions:
- several clinical trials have been subject to arrangements allowing remote assessment, with the usual nurses, caregivers and/or physiotherapists acting as intermediaries;
- sometimes, it is a physiotherapist experienced with assessments who travels to the patientâs home;
- in addition to clinical trials, these remote assessments can also be used for the prescription of specialist equipment and/or technical assistive devices;
- the live monitoring of these assessments by video streaming, and in general the use of new telemedicine technologies, are proving to be operational and well accepted.
