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Electronic Consultations: Techniques, Opportunities, and Threats
2007
Public Participation in Alternative Governance in Italy
P0322OUR EXPERIENCE IN ELECTRONIC CONSULTATION FOR REDUCING WAITING LIST AND OPTIMIZING NEPHROLOGY HEALTHCARE
2020
Abstract Background and Aims Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is recognized as a health problem in the general population; as a result, there is a growing demand for specialist services. This is especially relevant in the Spanish health system which covers the entire population free of charge. We describe our experience with new e-consultation software that allows specialists to provide clinical recommendations to primary care providers about non-subsidiary patients referred to our Nephrology Department. This system respects current protocols and is based on patient chart review without face-to-face visits, thus avoiding unnecessary time wastage in the healthcare system. Method Our Nephrology d…
Online Consultations Between General Practitioners and Psychiatrists in the Netherlands
2021
Objective: To examine the nature and scope of questions about psychiatric patient cases submitted by general practitioners (GPs) to an established online consultation platform and to determine if they could have been answered by consulting existing clinical guidelines.Methods: All anonymized psychiatric cases submitted by GPs to the online electronic Prisma platform between September 2018 and November 2019 were examined in a mixed-methods study. Descriptive statistics and qualitative thematic analysis were used, followed by axial coding to arrive at overarching themes to characterize cases.Results: Of the 136 included cases, 44.1% concerned female patients and about half concerned patients …