Asynchronous tele-expertise (ASTE) for prenatal diagnosis is feasible and cost saving: Results of a French case study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to assess the potential of the use of asynchronous tele-expertise (ASTE) to provide prenatal diagnosis from a medical and economic point of view.

Population

Patients screened by a midwife at a primary center.

Methods

A technical and clinical evaluation was conducted retrospectively, and a cost minimization study compared asynchronous tele-expertise to face-to-face consultations that would have been performed without ASTE.

Main outcome measures

In our study we assessed the feasibility of ASTE, what were the origins of the requests for expertise, whether patients need to be moved and the reasons for doing so, and the costs of tele-expertise and conventional consultation.

Results

In this retrospective analysis 322 a

SUBMITTER: Beldjerd M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9342717 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature