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Maximizing Efficiency of Telemedicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
Telemedicine has rapidly become a significant component of healthcare during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, and is particularly beneficial in delivering care to vulnerable populations in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). To limit coronavirus disease 2019 exposure, our team developed a quali...
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AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057760/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33991481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.04.009 |
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author | Jen, Sabrina P. Bui, Albert Leonard, Susan D. |
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description | Telemedicine has rapidly become a significant component of healthcare during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, and is particularly beneficial in delivering care to vulnerable populations in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). To limit coronavirus disease 2019 exposure, our team developed a quality improvement (QI) project to identify common telemedicine-related disruptions and their solutions, and created a streamlined protocol to maximize the efficiency of virtual rounding in the SNF. Through 9 Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, we revised our protocol to decrease the percentage of rounding time spent troubleshooting telemedicine-related problems (“nonclinical care time”) and were able to demonstrate repeatability at three checkpoints. Our QI project offers a framework for SNF providers and staff to deliver telemedicine-driven patient care. |
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spelling | pubmed-80577602021-04-21 Maximizing Efficiency of Telemedicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Jen, Sabrina P. Bui, Albert Leonard, Susan D. J Am Med Dir Assoc Pragmatic Innovations in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Telemedicine has rapidly become a significant component of healthcare during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, and is particularly beneficial in delivering care to vulnerable populations in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). To limit coronavirus disease 2019 exposure, our team developed a quality improvement (QI) project to identify common telemedicine-related disruptions and their solutions, and created a streamlined protocol to maximize the efficiency of virtual rounding in the SNF. Through 9 Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, we revised our protocol to decrease the percentage of rounding time spent troubleshooting telemedicine-related problems (“nonclinical care time”) and were able to demonstrate repeatability at three checkpoints. Our QI project offers a framework for SNF providers and staff to deliver telemedicine-driven patient care. AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. 2021-06 2021-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8057760/ /pubmed/33991481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.04.009 Text en © 2021 AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. 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 | Pragmatic Innovations in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Jen, Sabrina P. Bui, Albert Leonard, Susan D. Maximizing Efficiency of Telemedicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic |
title | Maximizing Efficiency of Telemedicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic |
title_full | Maximizing Efficiency of Telemedicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Maximizing Efficiency of Telemedicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Maximizing Efficiency of Telemedicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic |
title_short | Maximizing Efficiency of Telemedicine in the Skilled Nursing Facility during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic |
title_sort | maximizing efficiency of telemedicine in the skilled nursing facility during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic |
topic | Pragmatic Innovations in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057760/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33991481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.04.009 |
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