Telemedicine-assisted stepwise approach of service delivery for substance use disorders in India

Restricted access to healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic warranted an urgent adaptation of telemedicine practice. We describe a synchronous, stepwise (telephonic, video, and in-person consultation) direct-care model. From 18th May to 31st August 2020, 128 new and 198 follow-up patients received cons...

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Autores principales: Ghosh, Abhishek, Mahintamani, Tathagata, B.N., Subodh, Pillai, Renjith R., Mattoo, S.K., Basu, Debasish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33607350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102582
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author Ghosh, Abhishek
Mahintamani, Tathagata
B.N., Subodh
Pillai, Renjith R.
Mattoo, S.K.
Basu, Debasish
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description Restricted access to healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic warranted an urgent adaptation of telemedicine practice. We describe a synchronous, stepwise (telephonic, video, and in-person consultation) direct-care model. From 18th May to 31st August 2020, 128 new and 198 follow-up patients received consultation. Eighty-nine percent of new patients required video-consultation. Sixty-eight percent of follow-up cases were managed by telephonic consultation. A third of new and a fifth of the follow-up patients had to be called for physical consultation. Limited access to and understanding of the technologies, potential breach in privacy, and restrictions imposed on online prescription of medications posed significant challenges.
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spelling pubmed-97604202022-12-19 Telemedicine-assisted stepwise approach of service delivery for substance use disorders in India Ghosh, Abhishek Mahintamani, Tathagata B.N., Subodh Pillai, Renjith R. Mattoo, S.K. Basu, Debasish Asian J Psychiatr Short Communication Restricted access to healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic warranted an urgent adaptation of telemedicine practice. We describe a synchronous, stepwise (telephonic, video, and in-person consultation) direct-care model. From 18th May to 31st August 2020, 128 new and 198 follow-up patients received consultation. Eighty-nine percent of new patients required video-consultation. Sixty-eight percent of follow-up cases were managed by telephonic consultation. A third of new and a fifth of the follow-up patients had to be called for physical consultation. Limited access to and understanding of the technologies, potential breach in privacy, and restrictions imposed on online prescription of medications posed significant challenges. Elsevier B.V. 2021-04 2021-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9760420/ /pubmed/33607350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102582 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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