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Web-Based Specialist Support for Spinal Cord Injury Person's Care: Lessons Learned
Persons with disability from spinal cord injury (SCI) are subject to high risk of pathological events and need a regular followup even after discharge from the rehabilitation hospital. To help in followup, we developed a web portal for providing online specialist as well as GP support to SCI persons...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426237/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22934107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/861860 |
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author | Della Mea, Vincenzo Marin, Dario Rosin, Claudio Zampa, Agostino |
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description | Persons with disability from spinal cord injury (SCI) are subject to high risk of pathological events and need a regular followup even after discharge from the rehabilitation hospital. To help in followup, we developed a web portal for providing online specialist as well as GP support to SCI persons. After a feasibility study with 13 subjects, the portal has been introduced in the regional healthcare network in order to make it compliant with current legal regulations on data protection, including smartcard authentication. Although a number of training courses have been made to introduce SCI persons to portal use (up to 50 users), the number of accesses remained very low. Reasons for that have been investigated by means of a questionnaire submitted to the initial feasibility study subjects and included the still easier use of telephone versus our web-based smartcard-authenticated portal, in particular, because online communications are still perceived as an unusual way of interacting with the doctor. To summarize, the overall project has been appreciated by the users, but when it is time to ask for help to, the specialist, it is still much easier to make a phone call. |
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spelling | pubmed-34262372012-08-29 Web-Based Specialist Support for Spinal Cord Injury Person's Care: Lessons Learned Della Mea, Vincenzo Marin, Dario Rosin, Claudio Zampa, Agostino Int J Telemed Appl Research Article Persons with disability from spinal cord injury (SCI) are subject to high risk of pathological events and need a regular followup even after discharge from the rehabilitation hospital. To help in followup, we developed a web portal for providing online specialist as well as GP support to SCI persons. After a feasibility study with 13 subjects, the portal has been introduced in the regional healthcare network in order to make it compliant with current legal regulations on data protection, including smartcard authentication. Although a number of training courses have been made to introduce SCI persons to portal use (up to 50 users), the number of accesses remained very low. Reasons for that have been investigated by means of a questionnaire submitted to the initial feasibility study subjects and included the still easier use of telephone versus our web-based smartcard-authenticated portal, in particular, because online communications are still perceived as an unusual way of interacting with the doctor. To summarize, the overall project has been appreciated by the users, but when it is time to ask for help to, the specialist, it is still much easier to make a phone call. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3426237/ /pubmed/22934107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/861860 Text en Copyright © 2012 Vincenzo Della Mea et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Della Mea, Vincenzo Marin, Dario Rosin, Claudio Zampa, Agostino Web-Based Specialist Support for Spinal Cord Injury Person's Care: Lessons Learned |
title | Web-Based Specialist Support for Spinal Cord Injury Person's Care: Lessons Learned |
title_full | Web-Based Specialist Support for Spinal Cord Injury Person's Care: Lessons Learned |
title_fullStr | Web-Based Specialist Support for Spinal Cord Injury Person's Care: Lessons Learned |
title_full_unstemmed | Web-Based Specialist Support for Spinal Cord Injury Person's Care: Lessons Learned |
title_short | Web-Based Specialist Support for Spinal Cord Injury Person's Care: Lessons Learned |
title_sort | web-based specialist support for spinal cord injury person's care: lessons learned |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426237/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22934107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/861860 |
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