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Perception of telemedicine among medical practitioners in Malaysia during COVID-19
The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought unprecedented changes in the way conventional health care is delivered. This study examined if clinicians’ perceptions regarding telemedicine and its barriers to implementation in Malaysia have changed during this pandemic. A cross-sectional...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8485382/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34621369 http://dx.doi.org/10.25122/jml-2020-0119 |
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author | Thong, How Kit Wong, Danny Kit Chung Gendeh, Hardip Singh Saim, Lokman Athar, Primuharsa Putra Bin Sabir Husin Saim, Aminuddin |
author_facet | Thong, How Kit Wong, Danny Kit Chung Gendeh, Hardip Singh Saim, Lokman Athar, Primuharsa Putra Bin Sabir Husin Saim, Aminuddin |
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description | The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought unprecedented changes in the way conventional health care is delivered. This study examined if clinicians’ perceptions regarding telemedicine and its barriers to implementation in Malaysia have changed during this pandemic. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among Malaysian medical doctors of various specialties in four urban healthcare facilities between June 2020 and July 2020. A total of 146 (41.7%) out of 350 responses were obtained. 62% of doctors reported a reduction greater than 50% in outpatient visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of doctors either found telemedicine useful in situations similar to COVID-19 (34.2%) or that it is essential to their daily practice (42.5%). However, only 22% reported using telemedicine for consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic. 74% of doctors felt that telemedicine would only benefit up to 30% of their patient population. Significantly more female doctors (80%) felt that telemedicine would benefit their patients compared to male doctors (45.8%) (P=0.03). Physicians (51.3%) were more inclined to adopt telemedicine in comparison to surgeons (32.4%) (P=0.03). The majority cited medico-legal issues and consent (80.6%), billing and charges (66.7%) and insurance reimbursement (62.5%), technical difficulties (62.5%) as their barrier to the adoption of telemedicine. Female doctors and physicians were more willing to adopt telemedicine when compared to male doctors and surgeons. Although the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to improve the perception, significant barriers should be resolved before many can incorporate it into their practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-84853822021-10-06 Perception of telemedicine among medical practitioners in Malaysia during COVID-19 Thong, How Kit Wong, Danny Kit Chung Gendeh, Hardip Singh Saim, Lokman Athar, Primuharsa Putra Bin Sabir Husin Saim, Aminuddin J Med Life Original Article The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought unprecedented changes in the way conventional health care is delivered. This study examined if clinicians’ perceptions regarding telemedicine and its barriers to implementation in Malaysia have changed during this pandemic. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among Malaysian medical doctors of various specialties in four urban healthcare facilities between June 2020 and July 2020. A total of 146 (41.7%) out of 350 responses were obtained. 62% of doctors reported a reduction greater than 50% in outpatient visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of doctors either found telemedicine useful in situations similar to COVID-19 (34.2%) or that it is essential to their daily practice (42.5%). However, only 22% reported using telemedicine for consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic. 74% of doctors felt that telemedicine would only benefit up to 30% of their patient population. Significantly more female doctors (80%) felt that telemedicine would benefit their patients compared to male doctors (45.8%) (P=0.03). Physicians (51.3%) were more inclined to adopt telemedicine in comparison to surgeons (32.4%) (P=0.03). The majority cited medico-legal issues and consent (80.6%), billing and charges (66.7%) and insurance reimbursement (62.5%), technical difficulties (62.5%) as their barrier to the adoption of telemedicine. Female doctors and physicians were more willing to adopt telemedicine when compared to male doctors and surgeons. Although the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to improve the perception, significant barriers should be resolved before many can incorporate it into their practice. Carol Davila University Press 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8485382/ /pubmed/34621369 http://dx.doi.org/10.25122/jml-2020-0119 Text en ©2021 JOURNAL of MEDICINE and LIFE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Thong, How Kit Wong, Danny Kit Chung Gendeh, Hardip Singh Saim, Lokman Athar, Primuharsa Putra Bin Sabir Husin Saim, Aminuddin Perception of telemedicine among medical practitioners in Malaysia during COVID-19 |
title | Perception of telemedicine among medical practitioners in Malaysia during COVID-19 |
title_full | Perception of telemedicine among medical practitioners in Malaysia during COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Perception of telemedicine among medical practitioners in Malaysia during COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Perception of telemedicine among medical practitioners in Malaysia during COVID-19 |
title_short | Perception of telemedicine among medical practitioners in Malaysia during COVID-19 |
title_sort | perception of telemedicine among medical practitioners in malaysia during covid-19 |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8485382/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34621369 http://dx.doi.org/10.25122/jml-2020-0119 |
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