Pediatric surgery telehealth: patient and clinician satisfaction

Abstract

Telehealth for pediatric surgical services is an alternative as an acceptable, effective, and appropriate way to consult and follow-up pediatric patients who live in significantly remote areas with great clinician and patient satisfaction.

Remote Hearing Aid Support: The Next Frontier

“…These data are consistent with other applications of telehealth that reveal high patient and provider satisfaction rates (e.g., Gustke et al, 2004;Abrams and Geier, 2006;Shivji et al, 2011). For example, in the Shivji et al (2011) study, 97% of participants reported satisfaction with receiving remote surgical consultations, and 73% of providers were satisfied with providing those remote services.…”

Remote Lactation Consultation

“…Use of videoconferencing technology for healthcare intervention and support has been widely tested in several disciplines, including cardiac health, surgical care, and disease management [16][17][18] but, to the authors' knowledge, this is the first published work exploring its application to remote lactation support. Results of the pilot work presented here indicate that acceptability of remote lactation consultation is likely to be quite high, though much work is still required.…”

Telehealth in paediatric surgery: Accuracy of clinical decisions made by videoconference

“…More than 20,000 teleconsultations have been delivered by 37 different paediatric sub‐specialties . Similar paediatric telesurgical consultations are available in a number of Canadian provinces, and also in the USA . Given the rapid evolution of telecommunication and videoconferencing equipment, evidence supporting the accuracy of diagnosis at teleconsultation ought to be periodically assessed …”

“…7,8 Similar paediatric telesurgical consultations are available in a number of Canadian provinces, and also in the USA. [9][10][11] Given the rapid evolution of telecommunication and videoconferencing equipment, evidence supporting the accuracy of diagnosis at teleconsultation ought to be periodically assessed. [10][11][12][13][14] Canadian provinces in particular face similar health-care access challenges to Queensland due to their geographical size, and the proportion of the population residing in regional areas.…”