作者
James Alvin Low, Hui Jin Toh, Laurence Lean Chin Tan, Joanne Wee Koon Chia, Angeline Tian Seah Soek
发表日期
2020/8/1
期刊
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
卷号
21
期号
8
页码范围
1073-1078
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Objectives
We examined the demographics and the clinical profile of teleconsultations conducted between an acute geriatric medicine department and 8 nursing homes over a period of 6.5 years.
Design
This is a prospective, descriptive study.
Setting and Participants
This study was conducted in 8 nursing homes of Singapore. All nursing home patients referred to the program for teleconsultation between December 2010 and May 2017 were enrolled in the study.
Measures
The unit observed and studied was the individual telemedicine consultation. Each unique patient contributed 1 or more observation points. The data collected included consultation dates, patient demographics, background medical comorbidities, reasons for referral, physical examination findings, primary diagnoses, and general management plans recommended by the doctors.
Results
There were 1673 teleconsultations conducted with 850 unique …
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