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Vanderbilt University Medical Center Ambulatory Teleneurology COVID-19 Experience

Background: Telehealth has proliferated since the 1950s, but adoption and coverage of telehealth services for the U.S. public have been slow. In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the federal government has implemented temporary policy changes that removed barriers and cat...

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Autores principales: Harper, Kelly, Roof, Mikayla, Wadhawan, Nivan, Terala, Ananya, Turchan, Maxim, Bagnato, Francesca, Upender, Raghu, Pham, Huong, Eoff, Bryan, Charles, David
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33216703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0382
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author Harper, Kelly
Roof, Mikayla
Wadhawan, Nivan
Terala, Ananya
Turchan, Maxim
Bagnato, Francesca
Upender, Raghu
Pham, Huong
Eoff, Bryan
Charles, David
author_facet Harper, Kelly
Roof, Mikayla
Wadhawan, Nivan
Terala, Ananya
Turchan, Maxim
Bagnato, Francesca
Upender, Raghu
Pham, Huong
Eoff, Bryan
Charles, David
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description Background: Telehealth has proliferated since the 1950s, but adoption and coverage of telehealth services for the U.S. public have been slow. In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the federal government has implemented temporary policy changes that removed barriers and catalyzed the unprecedented adoption of telehealth. Methods: To assess ambulatory teleneurology satisfaction, we analyzed postvisit questionnaire data from patients and clinicians who completed teleneurology visits during the COVID-19 pandemic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Neurology (VUMC). Results: From March 18 to May 8, 2020, VUMC completed 3,935 teleneurology visits. More than 97% of patients were very highly or highly confident in the telehealth care they received, whereas almost 99% of clinicians were very likely or somewhat likely to recommend telehealth to other clinicians. Conclusions: Teleneurology satisfaction at VUMC has been positive, and going forward, we must advance upon this unprecedented adoption of telehealth and never revert to former restrictive policies.
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spelling pubmed-82154112021-06-21 Vanderbilt University Medical Center Ambulatory Teleneurology COVID-19 Experience Harper, Kelly Roof, Mikayla Wadhawan, Nivan Terala, Ananya Turchan, Maxim Bagnato, Francesca Upender, Raghu Pham, Huong Eoff, Bryan Charles, David Telemed J E Health Brief Communication Background: Telehealth has proliferated since the 1950s, but adoption and coverage of telehealth services for the U.S. public have been slow. In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the federal government has implemented temporary policy changes that removed barriers and catalyzed the unprecedented adoption of telehealth. Methods: To assess ambulatory teleneurology satisfaction, we analyzed postvisit questionnaire data from patients and clinicians who completed teleneurology visits during the COVID-19 pandemic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Neurology (VUMC). Results: From March 18 to May 8, 2020, VUMC completed 3,935 teleneurology visits. More than 97% of patients were very highly or highly confident in the telehealth care they received, whereas almost 99% of clinicians were very likely or somewhat likely to recommend telehealth to other clinicians. Conclusions: Teleneurology satisfaction at VUMC has been positive, and going forward, we must advance upon this unprecedented adoption of telehealth and never revert to former restrictive policies. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2021-06-01 2021-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8215411/ /pubmed/33216703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0382 Text en © Kelly Harper et al., 2021; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License [CC-BY-NC] (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are cited.
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Roof, Mikayla
Wadhawan, Nivan
Terala, Ananya
Turchan, Maxim
Bagnato, Francesca
Upender, Raghu
Pham, Huong
Eoff, Bryan
Charles, David
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Ambulatory Teleneurology COVID-19 Experience
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33216703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0382
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