Department of Ophthalmology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0374, Japan. nshoji@kitasato-u.ac.jp.
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.). Electronic address: ebirch@retinafoundation.org.
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
Mossakowski Medical Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Radio Electronics and Multimedia Technology, Warsaw University of Technology.
This quality improvement project assessed the outcomes of telephone consultations for ENT patients in order to identify areas where telephone consultations may be useful in the long term....
New ENT patient appointments in May 2019 and May 2020 were reviewed. Total outcomes as well as subspecialty-specific and presentation-specific outcomes were compared for telephone versus face-to-face ...
There were 638 consultations in total (465 in 2019 and 173 in 2020). Following telephone consultations, more patients were followed up and fewer patients were listed for surgery or discharged. Overall...
Lack of clinical examination in telephone consultations likely affects confidence in making a diagnosis and therefore discharging or listing patients for surgery. Nevertheless, looking at specialty-sp...
Despite the growing literature on the importance of identifying and managing frailty, its assessment has been limited in clinical settings. With the goal of integrating frailty assessment into routine...
Between 9/2020 and 6/2021, we identified 169 established patients with serious illnesses in an academic primary care-geriatric clinic. Patients were contacted via telephone, and their current medical,...
A total of 139 (82.2%) patients, mean age of 82 years, 63.3% frail were successfully assessed. Of the 139 assessments, medical and functional domains were completed for all, while nutrition, mood, and...
Implementation of the telephone-based frailty assessment is feasible, acceptable, and has the potential to influence the care plans of older adults. This work demonstrated how frailty assessment can b...
Telephone nurse triage services are becoming increasingly common in healthcare systems worldwide. Florianópolis (Santa Catarina State, Brazil) is the first municipality in the country to provide this ...
Telehealth has been used for health care delivery for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated the uptake of telehealth in many care settings globally. However, few studies have carried ...
This study aimed to identify and synthesize randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing synchronous telehealth consultations delivered by telephone and those conducted by video with outcomes such as...
PubMed (MEDLINE), Embase, and CENTRAL were searched via the Cochrane Library from inception until February 10, 2023, for RCTs without any language restriction. Forward and backward citation searches w...
Sixteen RCTs-10 in the United States, 3 in the United Kingdom, 2 in Canada, and 1 in Australia involving 1719 participants-were included in the qualitative and quantitative analyses. Most of the teleh...
Based on a small set of diverse trials, we found no notable differences between telephone and video consultations for the management of patients with an established diagnosis. There is also a signific...
Remote screening for cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) has grown in importance with the expected rise in prevalence of AD in an aging population and with new potential trea...
The Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) and new telephone adaptation of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (T-MoCA) were administered to participants independently classified through in-per...
TICS and T-MoCA were highly correlated (r = 0.787; P < 0.001): groups differed on both (CN<MCI<dementia; TICS: F [2212] = 156.66; P < 0.001; T-MoCA: F [2210] = 143.72; P < 0.001), both effectively det...
TICS and T-MoCA are effective for remotely detecting cognitive impairment associated with AD in older adults. Strong correlation between tests provides construct validity for the newer T-MoCA....
Construct validity for the telephone adaptation of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (T-MoCA) was newly established against the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS). TICS and T-MoCA effecti...
Caregivers of youth in psychiatric crisis often seek treatment from hospital emergency departments (EDs) as their first point of entry into the mental health system. Emergency departments have struggl...
This study included 517 youth (2-18 years; mean, 12.42 years; SD, 3.40 years) who received triage services in the winter of 2 consecutive years. Triage calls were received from caregivers (>75%), scho...
Dispositions were for acute, same-day evaluation (9.7%), direct care service (28.8%), further evaluation (within 48-72 hours, 40.0%), and resource/service update information (21.5%). Findings revealed...
A dearth of information on pediatric crisis telephone triage services exists; thus, developing an evidence base is an important area for future work. This information assists not only in our understan...
Telehealth has been widely adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this article examines challenges faced by telephone interpreters in working with healthcare providers in the context of the Austral...
With the increasing use of technology and an emerging need for virtual clinical reviews, particularly following the recent pandemic, it is essential to evaluate the safety of these clinical tools....
This retrospective study aims to determine the safety of virtual follow-up day one after cataract surgery....
All patients who underwent cataract surgery at Auckland District Health Board, New Zealand (Aotearoa), and were triaged for telephone review the day after surgery, from 5...
Nine hundred and eighty-seven cataract surgeries were triaged for virtual follow-up over the retrospective study period. Nine hundred and eighty-five cases in 928 patients met the inclusion criteria. ...
This is the largest study of a virtual day one post-operative follow-up following cataract surgery, and demonstrates that, in carefully selected subjects, virtual follow-up is a safe alternative to a ...
Cork University Hospital acts as the tertiary referral centre for the HSE southern area, with a catchment population of 1.2 million [1]. The neurology registrars receive telephone consultations from h...
The aim of this study is to define the workload of the neurology registrar with respect to telephone consultations and to examine the quality of these referrals....
All calls received from the 19th of October 2021 to the 25th of February 2022 were logged by the receiving registrar. Information collected pertained to the nature of the consult and completeness of t...
The average volume of calls during the study period was six per week. The median call duration was 8 min. The cumulative time spent resolving outside calls during the study period was at least 41.25 h...
This is a necessary service in a system that is not adequately resourced to provide specialist led care in all hospitals. A greater emphasis on complete and accurate referrals, along with robust commu...
Despite the effectiveness of telephone-based interventions for medical adherence and improved blood pressure, studies on the effect of such interventions on physical activity (PA) are needed. Therefor...
