Effectiveness of Telehealth in Rural and Remote Emergency Departments: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency telehealth has been used to improve access of patients residing in rural and remote areas to specialist care in the hope of mitigating the significant health disparities that they experience. Patient disposition decisions in rural and remote emergency departments (EDs) can be complex and largely dependent on the expertise and experience available at local (receiving-end) hospitals. Although there has been some synthesis of evidence of the effectiveness of emergency telehealth in clinical practice in rural and remote EDs for nonacute presentations, there has been limited evaluation of the influence of contextual factors such as clinical area and acuity of presentation on these findings.

Objective

The aims of this systematic review are to examine the outco

SUBMITTER: Tsou C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665379 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature