Emergency Departments' Uptake of Telehealth for Stroke Versus Pediatric Care: Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telehealth for emergency stroke care delivery (telestroke) has had widespread adoption, enabling many hospitals to obtain stroke center certification. Telehealth for pediatric emergency care has been less widely adopted.

Objective

Our primary objective was to determine whether differences in policy or certification requirements contributed to differential uptake of telestroke versus pediatric telehealth. We hypothesized that differences in financial incentives, based on differences in patient volume, prehospital routing policy, and certification requirements, contributed to differential emergency department (ED) adoption of telestroke versus pediatric telehealth.

Methods

We used the 2016 National Emergency Department Inventory-USA to identify EDs that were

SUBMITTER: Zachrison KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9254043 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature