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Tele-ICU: Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness Approach of Remotely Managing the Critical Care
Tele-ICU has an off-site command center in which a critical care team (intensivists and critical care nurses) is connected with patients in distance intensive care units (ICUs) through a real-time audio, visual and electronic means and health information is exchanged. The aim of this paper is to rev...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24078857 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874431101307010024 |
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author | Kumar, Sajeesh Merchant, Shezana Reynolds, Rebecca |
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description | Tele-ICU has an off-site command center in which a critical care team (intensivists and critical care nurses) is connected with patients in distance intensive care units (ICUs) through a real-time audio, visual and electronic means and health information is exchanged. The aim of this paper is to review literature to explore the available studies related to efficacy and cost effectiveness of Tele-ICU applications and to study the possible barriers to broader adoption. While studies draw conclusions on cost based on the mortality and Length of Stay (LOS), actual cost was not reported. Another problem in the studies was the lack of consistent measurement, reporting and adjustment for patient severity. From the data available, Tele-ICU seems to be a promising path, especially in the United States where there is a limited number of board-certified intensivists. |
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spelling | pubmed-37850362013-09-27 Tele-ICU: Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness Approach of Remotely Managing the Critical Care Kumar, Sajeesh Merchant, Shezana Reynolds, Rebecca Open Med Inform J Article Tele-ICU has an off-site command center in which a critical care team (intensivists and critical care nurses) is connected with patients in distance intensive care units (ICUs) through a real-time audio, visual and electronic means and health information is exchanged. The aim of this paper is to review literature to explore the available studies related to efficacy and cost effectiveness of Tele-ICU applications and to study the possible barriers to broader adoption. While studies draw conclusions on cost based on the mortality and Length of Stay (LOS), actual cost was not reported. Another problem in the studies was the lack of consistent measurement, reporting and adjustment for patient severity. From the data available, Tele-ICU seems to be a promising path, especially in the United States where there is a limited number of board-certified intensivists. Bentham Open 2013-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3785036/ /pubmed/24078857 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874431101307010024 Text en © Kumar et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Kumar, Sajeesh Merchant, Shezana Reynolds, Rebecca Tele-ICU: Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness Approach of Remotely Managing the Critical Care |
title | Tele-ICU: Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness Approach of Remotely Managing the Critical Care |
title_full | Tele-ICU: Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness Approach of Remotely Managing the Critical Care |
title_fullStr | Tele-ICU: Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness Approach of Remotely Managing the Critical Care |
title_full_unstemmed | Tele-ICU: Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness Approach of Remotely Managing the Critical Care |
title_short | Tele-ICU: Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness Approach of Remotely Managing the Critical Care |
title_sort | tele-icu: efficacy and cost-effectiveness approach of remotely managing the critical care |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24078857 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874431101307010024 |
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