Pandemic intake questionnaire to improve quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of outpatient neurologic and developmental care at the Kennedy Krieger institute during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This was a cross-sectional survey, not a trial, so it cannot show that the questionnaire changed care or patient outcomes. Only 33.6% of questionnaires were returned, and returning the questionnaire was voluntary, so families who did not answer may have been different. Families with infrequent email access and non-English speaking families may have been less likely to participate. Programs sent questionnaires at different numbers of days before appointments, which may have affected response. The questionnaire did not behave like a single unified measure; its items covered many different clinical areas. Only Six of 7 program directors responded to the provider feedback survey. The paper did not formally analyze differences between more and less medically complicated clinics.

Do not conclude that the Pandemic Intake questionnaire improved care. The paper reports guardian survey responses and Five out of six program directors found it helpful, but it did not compare care with the questionnaire against care without it.