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Role of Telemedicine in Management of Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Document Type : Narrative Review

Authors

1 School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

2 School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Telemedicine is applied in different medical conditions, such as acute emergencies, nonurgent assessments, and long-term treatment of ongoing neurological illnesses. A telemedicine interaction involves a remote provider and the cases and family at the originating site. For acute care and consultations, a telepresenter at the originating site improves the evaluations and approves results to the remote provider. The skill level of the telepresenter is different depending on the use and the desires of the remote provider. The limits of the evaluations conducted remotely using telemedicine have not been fully investigated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The skill set of the telemedicine must include the capacity to find when these limitations prevent optimal patient treatment and, in such cases, request an in-person assessment to more evaluate manifestations. Therefore, in this review, we aimed to investigate the role of telemedicine in management of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Journal of Reviews in Medical Sciences
Volume 1, Issue 3
2021
Pages 242-263
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  • Receive Date: 29 October 2021
  • Revise Date: 26 November 2021
  • Accept Date: 28 November 2021
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