Use of Telemedicine to Screen Patients in the Emergency Department: Matched Cohort Study Evaluating Efficiency and Patient Safety of Telemedicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early efforts to incorporate telemedicine into Emergency Medicine focused on connecting remote treatment clinics to larger emergency departments (EDs) and providing remote consultation services to EDs with limited resources. Owing to continued ED overcrowding, some EDs have used telemedicine to increase the number of providers during surges of patient visits and offer scheduled "home" face-to-face, on-screen encounters. In this study, we used remote on-screen telemedicine providers in the "screening-in-triage" role.

Objective

This study aimed to compare the efficiency and patient safety of in-person screening and telescreening.

Methods

This cohort study, matched for days and proximate hours, compared the performance of real-time remote telescreening and in-

SUBMITTER: Rademacher NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6530260 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature