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KIT 1 (Keep in Touch) Project—Televisits for Cancer Patients during Italian Lockdown for COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real-World Experience of Establishing a Telemedicine System
To evaluate the adoption of an integrated eHealth platform for televisit/monitoring/consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: During the lockdown imposed by the Italian government during the COVID19 pandemic spread, a dedicated multi-professional working group was set up in the Radiation O...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10340416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37444784 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11131950 |
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author | Casà, Calogero Corvari, Barbara Cellini, Francesco Cornacchione, Patrizia D’Aviero, Andrea Reina, Sara Di Franco, Silvia Salvati, Alessandra Colloca, Giuseppe Ferdinando Cesario, Alfredo Patarnello, Stefano Balducci, Mario Morganti, Alessio Giuseppe Valentini, Vincenzo Gambacorta, Maria Antonietta Tagliaferri, Luca |
author_facet | Casà, Calogero Corvari, Barbara Cellini, Francesco Cornacchione, Patrizia D’Aviero, Andrea Reina, Sara Di Franco, Silvia Salvati, Alessandra Colloca, Giuseppe Ferdinando Cesario, Alfredo Patarnello, Stefano Balducci, Mario Morganti, Alessio Giuseppe Valentini, Vincenzo Gambacorta, Maria Antonietta Tagliaferri, Luca |
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description | To evaluate the adoption of an integrated eHealth platform for televisit/monitoring/consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: During the lockdown imposed by the Italian government during the COVID19 pandemic spread, a dedicated multi-professional working group was set up in the Radiation Oncology Department with the primary aim of reducing patients’ exposure to COVID-19 by adopting de-centralized/remote consultation methodologies. Each patient’s clinical history was screened before the visit to assess if a traditional clinical visit would be recommended or if a remote evaluation was to be preferred. Real world data (RWD) in the form of patient-reported outcomes (PROMs) and patient reported experiences (PREMs) were collected from patients who underwent televisit/teleconsultation through the eHealth platform. Results: During the lockdown period (from 8 March to 4 May 2020) a total of 1956 visits were managed. A total of 983 (50.26%) of these visits were performed via email (to apply for and to upload of documents) and phone call management; 31 visits (1.58%) were performed using the eHealth system. Substantially, all patients found the eHealth platform useful and user-friendly, consistently indicating that this type of service would also be useful after the pandemic. Conclusions: The rapid implementation of an eHealth system was feasible and well-accepted by the patients during the pandemic. However, we believe that further evidence is to be generated to further support large-scale adoption. |
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spelling | pubmed-103404162023-07-14 KIT 1 (Keep in Touch) Project—Televisits for Cancer Patients during Italian Lockdown for COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real-World Experience of Establishing a Telemedicine System Casà, Calogero Corvari, Barbara Cellini, Francesco Cornacchione, Patrizia D’Aviero, Andrea Reina, Sara Di Franco, Silvia Salvati, Alessandra Colloca, Giuseppe Ferdinando Cesario, Alfredo Patarnello, Stefano Balducci, Mario Morganti, Alessio Giuseppe Valentini, Vincenzo Gambacorta, Maria Antonietta Tagliaferri, Luca Healthcare (Basel) Article To evaluate the adoption of an integrated eHealth platform for televisit/monitoring/consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: During the lockdown imposed by the Italian government during the COVID19 pandemic spread, a dedicated multi-professional working group was set up in the Radiation Oncology Department with the primary aim of reducing patients’ exposure to COVID-19 by adopting de-centralized/remote consultation methodologies. Each patient’s clinical history was screened before the visit to assess if a traditional clinical visit would be recommended or if a remote evaluation was to be preferred. Real world data (RWD) in the form of patient-reported outcomes (PROMs) and patient reported experiences (PREMs) were collected from patients who underwent televisit/teleconsultation through the eHealth platform. Results: During the lockdown period (from 8 March to 4 May 2020) a total of 1956 visits were managed. A total of 983 (50.26%) of these visits were performed via email (to apply for and to upload of documents) and phone call management; 31 visits (1.58%) were performed using the eHealth system. Substantially, all patients found the eHealth platform useful and user-friendly, consistently indicating that this type of service would also be useful after the pandemic. Conclusions: The rapid implementation of an eHealth system was feasible and well-accepted by the patients during the pandemic. However, we believe that further evidence is to be generated to further support large-scale adoption. MDPI 2023-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10340416/ /pubmed/37444784 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11131950 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Casà, Calogero Corvari, Barbara Cellini, Francesco Cornacchione, Patrizia D’Aviero, Andrea Reina, Sara Di Franco, Silvia Salvati, Alessandra Colloca, Giuseppe Ferdinando Cesario, Alfredo Patarnello, Stefano Balducci, Mario Morganti, Alessio Giuseppe Valentini, Vincenzo Gambacorta, Maria Antonietta Tagliaferri, Luca KIT 1 (Keep in Touch) Project—Televisits for Cancer Patients during Italian Lockdown for COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real-World Experience of Establishing a Telemedicine System |
title | KIT 1 (Keep in Touch) Project—Televisits for Cancer Patients during Italian Lockdown for COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real-World Experience of Establishing a Telemedicine System |
title_full | KIT 1 (Keep in Touch) Project—Televisits for Cancer Patients during Italian Lockdown for COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real-World Experience of Establishing a Telemedicine System |
title_fullStr | KIT 1 (Keep in Touch) Project—Televisits for Cancer Patients during Italian Lockdown for COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real-World Experience of Establishing a Telemedicine System |
title_full_unstemmed | KIT 1 (Keep in Touch) Project—Televisits for Cancer Patients during Italian Lockdown for COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real-World Experience of Establishing a Telemedicine System |
title_short | KIT 1 (Keep in Touch) Project—Televisits for Cancer Patients during Italian Lockdown for COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real-World Experience of Establishing a Telemedicine System |
title_sort | kit 1 (keep in touch) project—televisits for cancer patients during italian lockdown for covid-19 pandemic: the real-world experience of establishing a telemedicine system |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10340416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37444784 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11131950 |
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