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Teledermatology Adaptations in the COVID-19 Era

The COVID-19 pandemic has required health services worldwide to adapt to dramatically changing healthcare needs and risks across all medical specialties. In the dermatology department at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, we developed and implemented a teledermatology system with 1 we...

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Autores principales: Edwards, Harrison A., Shen, Xiaohua, Soyer, H. Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8187587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34124105
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.675383
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has required health services worldwide to adapt to dramatically changing healthcare needs and risks across all medical specialties. In the dermatology department at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, we developed and implemented a teledermatology system with 1 week's notice to help reduce infection risk bidirectionally, while saving patients many hours of travel and waiting time with acceptable technological substitutes for the clinical encounters. In this study, we report the efficacy and tolerability of our telephone consultation and store and forward imaging system, including patient experience from validated survey data. Our design, implementation and usage of a remote-default system provides experience and lessons to draw upon in developing future telemedicine systems to address dermatology service maldistribution – an issue affecting large areas of Australia – as well as preparedness for future infection mitigation requirements.
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spelling pubmed-81875872021-06-10 Teledermatology Adaptations in the COVID-19 Era Edwards, Harrison A. Shen, Xiaohua Soyer, H. Peter Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine The COVID-19 pandemic has required health services worldwide to adapt to dramatically changing healthcare needs and risks across all medical specialties. In the dermatology department at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, we developed and implemented a teledermatology system with 1 week's notice to help reduce infection risk bidirectionally, while saving patients many hours of travel and waiting time with acceptable technological substitutes for the clinical encounters. In this study, we report the efficacy and tolerability of our telephone consultation and store and forward imaging system, including patient experience from validated survey data. Our design, implementation and usage of a remote-default system provides experience and lessons to draw upon in developing future telemedicine systems to address dermatology service maldistribution – an issue affecting large areas of Australia – as well as preparedness for future infection mitigation requirements. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8187587/ /pubmed/34124105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.675383 Text en Copyright © 2021 Edwards, Shen and Soyer. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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