Telemedicine in home enteral nutrition: a structured survey exploring acceptability, preferences and experiences among patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given that Telemedicine are widespread in China, and we have developed home enteral nutrition service with telemedicine (HENST) to satisfy HEN requirement of patients. However, only little is known about patient's experience of HENST model. The objective of this interview study was to explore patient's experiences and improvement direction of the HENST model.

Methods

The revisit station of HEN patients between 2018 and 2022 were counted. And epidemiological characteristics of HENST patients in 2022 were collected. Meanwhile, the structured survey was conducted to collect experiences about HENST model from part HEN patients in 2022.

Results

The revisit rate of HEN patients increased from 25.8% to 35.8%, and the major revisit approach changed from face-to-fac

SUBMITTER: Ma Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11792411 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature