Editorial: Telemedicine During and Beyond COVID-19

Bhaskar, Sonu; Nurtazina, Alma; Mittoo, Shikha; Banach, Maciej; Weissert, Robert

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.662617

Cited by 46 publications

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“…No difficulty suggests 5/5 strength while only being able to fully extend the knee while sitting denotes 3/5 strength. 17 , 18 Patient is asked to perform a timed five repetition sit-to-stand (5R-STS) test, 2 shown to be highly reliable when performed at home without supervision. 86 Child is asked to squat and “frog jump”.…”

Section: Back and Lumbosacral Spinementioning

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“… 1 The lockdown measures associated with the pandemic have led to a hasty shift away from in-office visits, leading to rapid adoption of telemedicine technologies. 2 Face-to-face consultations for pediatric patients are being replaced by videoconference meetings or telephone encounters, carrying their own set of advantages and limitations. 3 , 4 For one, videoconference-based orthopedic consultations have been shown to be cost-effective and do not result in serious adverse events.…”

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The Telemedicine-Based Pediatric Examination of the Back and Lower Limbs: A Narrative Review

Noutsios

Boisvert-Plante

Laberge

et al. 2021

JPR

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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transition to virtual healthcare while also prompting an abundance of new literature highlighting telemedicine’s capabilities and limitations for various medical applications, notably musculoskeletal examinations. Telemedicine provides an opportunity to deliver timely patient- and family-centred care while maintaining physical distancing and improving access to remote communities. This review aims to narrate the current state of the literature on telemedicine applied in the context of a musculoskeletal examination for children aged 3 to 18 years. The PubMed and ScienceDirect databases were searched for relevant articles from January 2015 to August 2021 using a combination of keywords and nested searches. The general examination components relevant to the back and lumbosacral spine, hip, knee, ankle/foot, and gait are described. These components include inspection, palpation, range of motion, motor, and sensory examination as well as special testing. There is general feasibility, validity, and substantial reliability in performing most examination components, and primary diagnoses established virtually were found to be either the same or similar in the vast majority of cases. Despite the current literature focusing mainly on adult populations, we describe how each aspect of the exam can be reliably incorporated into a virtual appointment specific to the pediatric population. Currently available smartphone-based applications that measure joint range of motion were generally found to have high reliability and validity. Caregivers are needed for most of the consultation, especially in younger children, but select physical exam maneuvers can be self-performed by older children and adolescents alone. By providing an overview of the available smartphone tools as well as the reliability and validity of remote assessments, this review not only establishes a foundation for a structured pediatric musculoskeletal examination, but also aims to increase providers’ confidence in incorporating telemedicine into their practice.

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Section: Back and Lumbosacral Spinementioning

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The Telemedicine-Based Pediatric Examination of the Back and Lower Limbs: A Narrative Review

Noutsios

Boisvert-Plante

Laberge

et al. 2021

JPR

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“…Such frameworks include security, privacy and protection of patients’ medical data, ethical and specific electronic health legislations. Regulatory barriers also include challenges associated with the licensing of virtual healthcare solutions [ 59 ]. Moreover, the lack of technological certification standards and device regulation as well as inconsistent provincial or state rules hamper the adoption and utilization of virtual healthcare [ 28 ].…”

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Are we there yet? Unbundling the potential adoption and integration of telemedicine to improve virtual healthcare services in African health systems

Mbunge

Muchemwa

Batani

2022

Sensors International

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the attention has now shifted towards universal vaccination to gracefully lift strict COVID-19 restrictions previously imposed to contain the spread of the disease. Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing an exponential increase of infections and deaths coupled with vaccines shortages, personal protective equipment, weak health systems and COVID-19 emerging variants. Some developed countries integrated telemedicine to reduce the impacts of the shortage of healthcare professionals and potentially reduce the risk of exposure, ensuring easy delivery of quality health services while limiting regular physical contact and direct hospitalization. However, the adoption of telemedicine and telehealth is still nascent in many sub-Saharan Africa countries. Therefore, this study reflects on progress made towards the use of telemedicine, virtual health care services, challenges encountered, and proffers ways to address them. We conducted a systematic literature review to synthesise literature on telemedicine in sub-Saharan Africa. The study revealed that telemedicine provides unprecedented benefits such as improving efficiency, effective utilization of healthcare resources, forward triaging, prevention of medical personnel infection, aiding medical students' clinical observation and participation, and assurance of social support for patients. However, the absence of policy on virtual care and political will, cost of sustenance of virtual health care services, inadequate funding, technological and infrastructural barriers, patient and healthcare personnel bias on virtual care and cultural barriers are identified as limiting factors to the adoption of virtual health care in many African health systems. To alleviate some of these barriers, we recommend the development of robust policies and frameworks for virtual health care, the inclusion of virtual care in the medical school curriculum, supporting virtual care research and development, increasing health funding, removing monopolisation of telecommunication services, developing of virtual health solutions that address eccentricities of African health systems.

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“…Since the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals and organizations have been forced to operate through online technologies and social platforms (Bhaskar et al, 2021). Consulting the social networking profiles of potential candidates on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn is more than ever a fundamental human resource management practice in the modern organization (Villeda and McCamey, 2019).…”

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Impression Management and Career Related Outcomes: A Systematic Literature Review

Al-Shatti

Ohana

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Despite the popularity of the term impression management (IM) in the literature, there is no consensus as how different types of IM (direct vs. indirect) and modes of interaction (face-to-face vs. online) promote career-related outcomes. While most empirical studies focus on direct IM, individuals engage in both types of IM and interaction modes, particularly indirect IM in the online context. Indeed, recent developments suggest that online interactions now prevail over face-to-face interactions, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, this study presents the first systematic literature review that differentiates between types of IM (direct vs. indirect) and modes of interaction (face-to-face vs. online) in a career development perspective. The review shows that direct IM is more widely studied in the face-to-face than online interaction mode, while indirect IM is neglected in both interaction modes. This study thus provides evidence of the need to investigate and differentiate between the different types of IM and interaction modes for career-related outcomes, highlighting some research gaps and directions for future inquiry.

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Editorial: Telemedicine During and Beyond COVID-19

Cited by 46 publications

References 9 publications

The Telemedicine-Based Pediatric Examination of the Back and Lower Limbs: A Narrative Review

The Telemedicine-Based Pediatric Examination of the Back and Lower Limbs: A Narrative Review

Are we there yet? Unbundling the potential adoption and integration of telemedicine to improve virtual healthcare services in African health systems

Impression Management and Career Related Outcomes: A Systematic Literature Review

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