Medical Oncology Professionals' Perceptions of Telehealth Video Visits.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Telehealth has emerged as a means of improving access and reducing cost for medical oncology care; however, use by specialists prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic still remained low. Medical oncology professionals' perceptions of telehealth for cancer care are largely unknown, but are critical to telehealth utilization and expansion efforts.

Objective

To identify medical oncology health professionals' perceptions of the barriers to and benefits of telehealth video visits.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study used interviews conducted from October 30, 2019, to March 5, 2020, of medical oncology health professionals at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, an urban academic health system in the US with a cancer ce

SUBMITTER: Heyer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7809588 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature