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Tele-Rheumatology during the COVID-19 pandemic by Jesús Tornero-Molina; Fernando Sánchez-Alonso; Manuel Fernández-Prada; María-Luisa Bris-Ochaita; Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo; Javier Vidal-Fuentes is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Introduction: During the covid-19 pandemic strategies to prevent transmission of the viral infection obliged our hospital to promote virtual consultations. ## Objetive: The objective of this study is to describe the results obtained with the previous strategy of transferring activity to teleconsultation during the period of maximum impact of the pandemic. ## Material and methods: Between 16/03 and 10/05/2020 all successive consultations in our unit were performed in virtual rheumatology teleconference (rtc) format. the socio-demographic, geo-functional and clinical characteristics of all patients were collected; a numeric verbal scale (nvs) (where 0 = very dissatisfied to 10 = fully satisfied) was applied to assess the degree of satisfaction of the doctor/patient with the rtc. ## Results: 469 tc were included. most patients seen by rtc were women, mean age: 60,83 years. only 16% had university education. the mean distance travelled for face-to face consultation is 33 km with a mean total time of 2 h. most individuals were diagnosed with osteoarthritis/soft tissue rheumatic diseases and/or osteoporosis; 21% had rheumatoid arthritis. the mean length of the tc was 9.64 min. we find
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- Author
- Jesús Tornero-Molina; Fernando Sánchez-Alonso; Manuel Fernández-Prada; María-Luisa Bris-Ochaita; Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo; Javier Vidal-Fuentes
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)