Equity in telemedicine for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred an unprecedented paradigm shift to telemedicine across healthcare fields in order to limit exposure to the virus. At the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, telemedicine has been used to perform COVID-19-related tele-education to he...

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Autores principales: Kuang, Weihong, Zeng, Guojun, Nie, Yunbo, Cai, Yan, Li, Jin, Wan, Yang, Qiu, Peiyuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8500126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34555846
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihab058
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author Kuang, Weihong
Zeng, Guojun
Nie, Yunbo
Cai, Yan
Li, Jin
Wan, Yang
Qiu, Peiyuan
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description The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred an unprecedented paradigm shift to telemedicine across healthcare fields in order to limit exposure to the virus. At the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, telemedicine has been used to perform COVID-19-related tele-education to health professionals and the general population, as well as tele-diagnosis, online treatment and internet-based drug prescription and delivery. However, many older adults could not make appointments with doctors due to difficulty using the internet-based platform. Careful attention needs to be paid by future researchers and policymakers in order to mitigate barriers older adults face when using telemedicine.
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spelling pubmed-85001262021-10-08 Equity in telemedicine for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic Kuang, Weihong Zeng, Guojun Nie, Yunbo Cai, Yan Li, Jin Wan, Yang Qiu, Peiyuan Int Health Commentary The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred an unprecedented paradigm shift to telemedicine across healthcare fields in order to limit exposure to the virus. At the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, telemedicine has been used to perform COVID-19-related tele-education to health professionals and the general population, as well as tele-diagnosis, online treatment and internet-based drug prescription and delivery. However, many older adults could not make appointments with doctors due to difficulty using the internet-based platform. Careful attention needs to be paid by future researchers and policymakers in order to mitigate barriers older adults face when using telemedicine. Oxford University Press 2021-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8500126/ /pubmed/34555846 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihab058 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_sort equity in telemedicine for older adults during the covid-19 pandemic
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