Patient treatment and management guidelines, including information on case definition and people subject to testing, screening stations, treatment and support for confirmed cases, and discharge protocols. Regularly updated.
Coronavirus disease 19(COVID-19)
Protocols and guidelines for management of Covid cases across a wide breadth of dimensions, including triage protocols. The full list of protocols is below. Regularly updated.
The protocol for the overall management of Covid-19 in Malaysia is below, including: overall patient flowchart, criteria for hospital admission, criteria for home management, criteria for transfer to a step-down facility, criteria for discharge from the Infectious Disease Ward, and post-discharge plans.
Management of Suspected, Probably and Confirmed Covid-19 Case.pdf
The screening and triaging protocols for private and public facilities is below.
Specific protocols can also be found in the "Guidelines and protocols" subfolders under the following folders in Covid-19 Resources: Triage, Home-based Care, Primary Care, and Hospital.
Covid triage centre guidelines – guidance document setting out the pathways and criteria used by call centre nurses taking initial and subsequent calls from patients with suspected Covid symptoms. This includes classification by risk status and potential triage routes including referral to the respiratory clinic, a visit from an outreach team, and enrolment into the CHA Covid community management pathway. Regularly updated.
Covid community management guidelines – telephone-based protocol for regular assessments of moderate and high risk patients with Covid symptoms, with workflow and specific assessment criteria for use on days 4, 7, and 10 after symptom onset. Regularly updated.
Guidance document on isolation and treatment of all suspect and confirmed cases, including classification of three tiers of Covid-19 care facilities for mild, moderate and severe cases; triage of patients into these three tiers of care; and an algorithm for referrals and discharge for these patients.