Clinician Stakeholder Experience With Telemedicine Consults to Assess Neonatal Encephalopathy in a Rural State.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Serial neonatal encephalopathy (NE) examinations are difficult to perform in rural community hospitals as on-site experts are not readily available. We implemented a synchronous, acute care model of teleconsultation-the Maine Neonatal Encephalopathy Teleconsultation program (Maine NET)-to provide remote, joint assessment of NE by pediatric neurology and neonatology at nine community hospitals and one tertiary care center. We performed a qualitative study to interview clinicians about their experience of this program.

Methods

From April 2018 to October 2022, we employed a semistructured interview format with 16 clinicians representing all participating hospitals. We utilized deductive analysis to assign a set of predefined codes to the transcribed interviews.

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SUBMITTER: Seften LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11381153 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature