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Telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed obstacles to the delivery of diabetic foot care. In response to this remote healthcare services have been deployed offering monitoring, follow-up, and referral services to patients with diabetic foot ulcers and related conditions...

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Autores principales: Kamaratos-Sevdalis, Nikolaos, Kamaratos, Alexandros, Papadakis, Marios, Tsagkaris, Christos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9350733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36159092
http://dx.doi.org/10.5662/wjm.v12.i4.285
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author Kamaratos-Sevdalis, Nikolaos
Kamaratos, Alexandros
Papadakis, Marios
Tsagkaris, Christos
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Kamaratos, Alexandros
Papadakis, Marios
Tsagkaris, Christos
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description BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed obstacles to the delivery of diabetic foot care. In response to this remote healthcare services have been deployed offering monitoring, follow-up, and referral services to patients with diabetic foot ulcers and related conditions. Although, remote diabetic foot care has been studied before the COVID-19 pandemic as an alternative to in-person care, the peculiar situation of the pandemic, which dictates that remote care would be the sole available option for healthcare practitioners and patients, necessitates an evaluation of the relevant knowledge obtained since the beginning of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 outbreak. AIM: To perform a thorough search in PubMed/Medline and Cochrane to identify original records on the topic. METHODS: To identify relevant peer-reviewed publications and gray literature, the authors searched PubMed-MEDLINE and Cochrane Library-Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials starting September 27 till October 31, 2021. The reference lists of the selected sources and relevant systematic reviews were also hand–searched to identify potentially relevant resources. Otherwise, the authors searched Reference Citation Analysis (https://www.referencecitationanalysis.com/). RESULTS: A number of randomized prospective studies, case series, and case reports have shown that the effectiveness of remote care is comparable to in-person care in terms of hospitalizations, amputations, and mortality. The level of satisfaction of patients’ receiving this type of care was high. The cost of remote healthcare was not significantly lower than in - person care though. CONCLUSION: It is noteworthy that remote care during the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to be more effective and well - received than remote care in the past. Nevertheless, larger studies spanning over longer time intervals are necessary in order to validate these results and provide additional insights.
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spelling pubmed-93507332022-09-23 Telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the COVID-19 pandemic Kamaratos-Sevdalis, Nikolaos Kamaratos, Alexandros Papadakis, Marios Tsagkaris, Christos World J Methodol Systematic Reviews BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed obstacles to the delivery of diabetic foot care. In response to this remote healthcare services have been deployed offering monitoring, follow-up, and referral services to patients with diabetic foot ulcers and related conditions. Although, remote diabetic foot care has been studied before the COVID-19 pandemic as an alternative to in-person care, the peculiar situation of the pandemic, which dictates that remote care would be the sole available option for healthcare practitioners and patients, necessitates an evaluation of the relevant knowledge obtained since the beginning of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 outbreak. AIM: To perform a thorough search in PubMed/Medline and Cochrane to identify original records on the topic. METHODS: To identify relevant peer-reviewed publications and gray literature, the authors searched PubMed-MEDLINE and Cochrane Library-Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials starting September 27 till October 31, 2021. The reference lists of the selected sources and relevant systematic reviews were also hand–searched to identify potentially relevant resources. Otherwise, the authors searched Reference Citation Analysis (https://www.referencecitationanalysis.com/). RESULTS: A number of randomized prospective studies, case series, and case reports have shown that the effectiveness of remote care is comparable to in-person care in terms of hospitalizations, amputations, and mortality. The level of satisfaction of patients’ receiving this type of care was high. The cost of remote healthcare was not significantly lower than in - person care though. CONCLUSION: It is noteworthy that remote care during the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to be more effective and well - received than remote care in the past. Nevertheless, larger studies spanning over longer time intervals are necessary in order to validate these results and provide additional insights. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9350733/ /pubmed/36159092 http://dx.doi.org/10.5662/wjm.v12.i4.285 Text en ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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Kamaratos, Alexandros
Papadakis, Marios
Tsagkaris, Christos
Telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the COVID-19 pandemic
title Telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Systematic Reviews
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9350733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36159092
http://dx.doi.org/10.5662/wjm.v12.i4.285
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