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Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: A Balancing Act to Avoid Harm
The telehealth revolution in response to COVID-19 has increased essential health care access during an unprecedented public health crisis. However, virtual patient care can also limit the patient-provider relationship, quality of examination, efficiency of health care delivery, and overall quality o...
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JMIR Publications
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7857524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33477104 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/24785 |
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author | Reeves, J Jeffery Ayers, John W Longhurst, Christopher A |
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description | The telehealth revolution in response to COVID-19 has increased essential health care access during an unprecedented public health crisis. However, virtual patient care can also limit the patient-provider relationship, quality of examination, efficiency of health care delivery, and overall quality of care. As we witness the most rapidly adopted medical trend in modern history, clinicians are beginning to comprehend the many possibilities of telehealth, but its limitations also need to be understood. As outcomes are studied and federal regulations reconsidered, it is important to be precise in the virtual patient encounter approach. Herein, we offer some simple guidelines that could assist health care providers and clinic schedulers in determining the appropriateness of a telehealth visit by considering visit types, patient characteristics, and chief complaint or disease states. |
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spelling | pubmed-78575242021-02-05 Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: A Balancing Act to Avoid Harm Reeves, J Jeffery Ayers, John W Longhurst, Christopher A J Med Internet Res Viewpoint The telehealth revolution in response to COVID-19 has increased essential health care access during an unprecedented public health crisis. However, virtual patient care can also limit the patient-provider relationship, quality of examination, efficiency of health care delivery, and overall quality of care. As we witness the most rapidly adopted medical trend in modern history, clinicians are beginning to comprehend the many possibilities of telehealth, but its limitations also need to be understood. As outcomes are studied and federal regulations reconsidered, it is important to be precise in the virtual patient encounter approach. Herein, we offer some simple guidelines that could assist health care providers and clinic schedulers in determining the appropriateness of a telehealth visit by considering visit types, patient characteristics, and chief complaint or disease states. JMIR Publications 2021-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7857524/ /pubmed/33477104 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/24785 Text en ©J Jeffery Reeves, John W Ayers, Christopher A Longhurst. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 01.02.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Viewpoint Reeves, J Jeffery Ayers, John W Longhurst, Christopher A Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: A Balancing Act to Avoid Harm |
title | Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: A Balancing Act to Avoid Harm |
title_full | Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: A Balancing Act to Avoid Harm |
title_fullStr | Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: A Balancing Act to Avoid Harm |
title_full_unstemmed | Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: A Balancing Act to Avoid Harm |
title_short | Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: A Balancing Act to Avoid Harm |
title_sort | telehealth in the covid-19 era: a balancing act to avoid harm |
topic | Viewpoint |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7857524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33477104 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/24785 |
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