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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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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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author | Edwards, Harrison A. Shen, Xiaohua Soyer, H. Peter |
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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. |
spellingShingle | Medicine Edwards, Harrison A. Shen, Xiaohua Soyer, H. Peter Teledermatology Adaptations in the COVID-19 Era |
title | Teledermatology Adaptations in the COVID-19 Era |
title_full | Teledermatology Adaptations in the COVID-19 Era |
title_fullStr | Teledermatology Adaptations in the COVID-19 Era |
title_full_unstemmed | Teledermatology Adaptations in the COVID-19 Era |
title_short | Teledermatology Adaptations in the COVID-19 Era |
title_sort | teledermatology adaptations in the covid-19 era |
topic | Medicine |
url | 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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