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TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 454-458Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2021.0613
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COVID 19; telemedicine; hospital workload; children
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This study evaluated the use of telemedicine in children with COVID-19, and found that interviews through telephone could help reduce patient burden and prevent contact with healthy individuals.
Background: This study evaluated the effect of telemedicine use in children with COVID-19 to reduce the workload of health care facilities.Methods: This study was conducted at Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital between October and December 2020. The complaints of the children who were called because of positivity for severe acute respiratory syndrome-CoV-2-PCR were questioned and also the duration of talk was recorded. Children were classified according to their symptoms. Cases with severe symptoms were invited to the hospital and were hospitalized according to their clinical findings.Results: The median age of 506 patients reached was 10.8 +/- 5.5. Phone calls lasted <3 min in 498 (98.6%) cases. Only 33 (6.5%) patients with severe symptoms were invited to the hospital, and 6 (18.2%) of these cases were hospitalized.Conclusion: During the pandemic, interviews with patients through telephone may help to reduce the patient burden and to prevent the contact of healthy individuals.
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