Telemedicine Facilitation of Transfer Coordination From Emergency Departments.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

Interhospital transfers are costly to patients and to the health care system. The use of telemedicine may enable more efficient systems by decreasing transfers or diverting transfers from crowded referral emergency departments (EDs) to alternative appropriate facilities. Our primary objective is to describe the prevalence of telemedicine for transfer coordination among US EDs, the ways in which it is used, and characteristics of EDs that use telemedicine for transfer coordination.

Methods

We used the 2016 National Emergency Department Inventory-USA survey to identify telemedicine-using EDs. We then surveyed all EDs using telemedicine for transfer coordination and a sample of EDs using telemedicine for other clinical applications. We used a multivariable logis

SUBMITTER: Hayden EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7252127 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature