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Teleconsulta en una unidad de coloproctología durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Resultados preliminares
INTRODUCTION: During the state of alarm established in Spain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the face-to-face outpatient consultations were cancelled and a telephone consultation was established to follow up coloproctological patients. The objective of this study was to analyse the efficacy of...
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AEC. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7342026/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ciresp.2020.06.019 |
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author | Muñoz-Duyos, Arantxa Abarca-Alvarado, Natalia Lagares-Tena, Laura Sobrerroca, Laura Costa, Daniel Boada, Mercè Ureña, Dolors Delgado-Rivilla, Salvadora |
author_facet | Muñoz-Duyos, Arantxa Abarca-Alvarado, Natalia Lagares-Tena, Laura Sobrerroca, Laura Costa, Daniel Boada, Mercè Ureña, Dolors Delgado-Rivilla, Salvadora |
author_sort | Muñoz-Duyos, Arantxa |
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description | INTRODUCTION: During the state of alarm established in Spain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the face-to-face outpatient consultations were cancelled and a telephone consultation was established to follow up coloproctological patients. The objective of this study was to analyse the efficacy of telemedicine (by telephone) in monitoring patients in a coloproctology unit, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: Prospective descriptive study of consecutive patients in a single centre. The result of the teleconsultation was classified as discharge, resolved visit or reprogramming and was analysed by different diagnostic groups. RESULTS: From March 19th to April 17th, 2020, the teleconsultation of 190 patients was carried out. The response rate was 94.2% (179). The diagnostic categories of the patients attended were: 51 (26.9%) colorectal neoplasia, 48 (25.3%) proctological pathology, 72 (37.9%) pelvic floor dysfunctions and 19 (10%) other benign pathologies. 105 (55.26%) could be recited as if they had come in person. Eleven (5.8%) patients were discharged. No significant differences were found between the different diagnostic categories and the resolution of the teleconsultation. The reasons for reprogramming are analyzed in the study. CONCLUSION: In the context of a pandemic, teleconsultation has allowed 61% of follow-up visits to be definitively solved, avoiding the reprogramming of 116 patients. The new social and health paradigm after the pandemic will require a rethinking of our healthcare model, and in many aspects, telemedicine can offer tools for this. |
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spelling | pubmed-73420262020-07-09 Teleconsulta en una unidad de coloproctología durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Resultados preliminares Muñoz-Duyos, Arantxa Abarca-Alvarado, Natalia Lagares-Tena, Laura Sobrerroca, Laura Costa, Daniel Boada, Mercè Ureña, Dolors Delgado-Rivilla, Salvadora Cir Esp Original INTRODUCTION: During the state of alarm established in Spain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the face-to-face outpatient consultations were cancelled and a telephone consultation was established to follow up coloproctological patients. The objective of this study was to analyse the efficacy of telemedicine (by telephone) in monitoring patients in a coloproctology unit, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: Prospective descriptive study of consecutive patients in a single centre. The result of the teleconsultation was classified as discharge, resolved visit or reprogramming and was analysed by different diagnostic groups. RESULTS: From March 19th to April 17th, 2020, the teleconsultation of 190 patients was carried out. The response rate was 94.2% (179). The diagnostic categories of the patients attended were: 51 (26.9%) colorectal neoplasia, 48 (25.3%) proctological pathology, 72 (37.9%) pelvic floor dysfunctions and 19 (10%) other benign pathologies. 105 (55.26%) could be recited as if they had come in person. Eleven (5.8%) patients were discharged. No significant differences were found between the different diagnostic categories and the resolution of the teleconsultation. The reasons for reprogramming are analyzed in the study. CONCLUSION: In the context of a pandemic, teleconsultation has allowed 61% of follow-up visits to be definitively solved, avoiding the reprogramming of 116 patients. The new social and health paradigm after the pandemic will require a rethinking of our healthcare model, and in many aspects, telemedicine can offer tools for this. AEC. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2021-05 2020-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7342026/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ciresp.2020.06.019 Text en © 2020 AEC. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Original Muñoz-Duyos, Arantxa Abarca-Alvarado, Natalia Lagares-Tena, Laura Sobrerroca, Laura Costa, Daniel Boada, Mercè Ureña, Dolors Delgado-Rivilla, Salvadora Teleconsulta en una unidad de coloproctología durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Resultados preliminares |
title | Teleconsulta en una unidad de coloproctología durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Resultados preliminares |
title_full | Teleconsulta en una unidad de coloproctología durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Resultados preliminares |
title_fullStr | Teleconsulta en una unidad de coloproctología durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Resultados preliminares |
title_full_unstemmed | Teleconsulta en una unidad de coloproctología durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Resultados preliminares |
title_short | Teleconsulta en una unidad de coloproctología durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Resultados preliminares |
title_sort | teleconsulta en una unidad de coloproctología durante la pandemia de covid-19. resultados preliminares |
topic | Original |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7342026/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ciresp.2020.06.019 |
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