Reflections on the future of telemedicine and virtual spinal clinics in the post COVID-19 era

• Both patients and surgeons seem to show significant satisfaction with virtual spinal clinics. • Virtual spinal clinics may be an important adjunct to traditional face-to-face clinics. • Limitations in physical examination constitute main concern. • Patient selection is an important factor in decid...

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Autores principales: Mazarakis, Nektarios K., Koutsarnakis, Christos, Komaitis, Spyridon, Drosos, Evangelos, Demetriades, Andreas K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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June
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9375852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36248094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bas.2022.100930
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author Mazarakis, Nektarios K.
Koutsarnakis, Christos
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description • Both patients and surgeons seem to show significant satisfaction with virtual spinal clinics. • Virtual spinal clinics may be an important adjunct to traditional face-to-face clinics. • Limitations in physical examination constitute main concern. • Patient selection is an important factor in deciding who is a suitable candidate for a virtual spinal clinic. • Medicolegal concerns need to be adequately addressed if spinal virtual clinics are to be routinely used.
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spelling pubmed-93758522022-08-15 Reflections on the future of telemedicine and virtual spinal clinics in the post COVID-19 era Mazarakis, Nektarios K. Koutsarnakis, Christos Komaitis, Spyridon Drosos, Evangelos Demetriades, Andreas K. Brain Spine June • Both patients and surgeons seem to show significant satisfaction with virtual spinal clinics. • Virtual spinal clinics may be an important adjunct to traditional face-to-face clinics. • Limitations in physical examination constitute main concern. • Patient selection is an important factor in deciding who is a suitable candidate for a virtual spinal clinic. • Medicolegal concerns need to be adequately addressed if spinal virtual clinics are to be routinely used. Elsevier 2022-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9375852/ /pubmed/36248094 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bas.2022.100930 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe, EANS, the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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