Telehealth in outpatient delivery of palliative care: a prospective survey evaluation by patients and clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic new funding models were introduced to support telehealth consultations, resulting in their widescale adoption in palliative care service delivery. Clarity around the clinical circumstances and patient populations that might be most appropriate for telehealth models was required.

Aims

To evaluate patient and physician satisfaction, acceptability and utility of outpatient palliative care provision through telehealth.

Methods

This is a multi-site prospective, cross-sectional, observational study conducted during a time of significant public health restrictions. A survey was used to collect matched patient- and physician-reported perceptions of palliative care telehealth consultations across three metropolitan hospitals

SUBMITTER: Philip J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9540442 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature