Use of Telemedicine for Initial Consultations in Elective Orthopaedics—Results from a Large Volume Centre:

Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics

KalpeshShah¹ 

关键词: Telemedicine;    elective;    orthopaedic;    consultation;    foot;    ankle;    arthroplasty;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2473011417S000366

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Category:Healthcare DeliveryIntroduction/Purpose:Telehealth and telemedicine are at the heart of healthcare Vision for several countries including Canada, U.S.A, Scotland, etc; and and the aim is to use technologies to transform the way health and is delivered. Deployed thoughtfully and carefully, telehealth and telecare can help generate efficiencies through more flexible use of our workforce capacity and by reducing travel and minimising access delays. In line with this we wanted to use telemedicine for doing preoperative consultations for elective foot/ankle and lower limb arthroplasty procedures in patients referred from remote parts of the country to our hospital. The purpose of our study was to prove that telemedicine clinics (or Tele clinics) are just as safe, effective and satisfactory as face to face interactions between doctors and their patients.Methods:Two studies were conducted at this hospital between 2015-16. The first was a prospective pilot study of 50 new patients who were all seen using...

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