期刊
TELEMEDICINE JOURNAL AND E-HEALTH
卷 16, 期 5, 页码 533-542出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT INC
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2009.0138
关键词
telemedicine; acute illness; childcare; elementary schools; primary care; low-income population
资金
- United States Department of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Rochester Area Community Foundation
- Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation
- United Way of Rochester and Monroe County
- Halcyon Hill Foundation
- Rochester's Child, Gannett Foundation
- Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Foundation
- Fred and Floy Wilmott Foundation
- Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation
- Fein-bloom Family Supporting Foundation
- Frontier Telecommunications Corporation
- Anonymous donors, Volunteers of America Children's Center
- Carlson Metro YMCA Children's Center
- Wilson Commencement Park
- Ibero Child Care
- Action for a Better Community Head Start
- Lewis Street YMCA Child Care
- Bates-Rich Child Care
- Kids First Child Care
- Miss Rita's Small World
- Rochester City School District
- East Rochester School District
- Diocese of Rochester Catholic Schools, New York State
- Maternal and Child Health Bureau [R40 MC03605]
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [R01 HS15165]
Background: Acute illness challenges all families with young children. The Health-e-Access Telemedicine Network in Rochester, NY, has enabled > 7,000 telemedicine visits since 2001 among children in childcare or elementary schools, predominantly from Rochester's inner city. Large reductions in illness-related absence and emergency department use among Health-e-Access participants have occurred. Objective: The study was aimed to assess parent perception of telemedicine as a means to reduce burdens associated with childhood illness. Design/Methods: A total of 800 parents were surveyed before (578) or after (318) a child had at least one Health-e-Access visit. Queries addressed access to healthcare, conflicts between work/school and child's care during illness, and concerns and likes about telemedicine. Perceptions were elicited through open-ended and direct queries. Results: Among all respondents, 16% had high-school education and 25% had a college education. Race/ethnicity of the respondents included black (43.6%), Hispanic (22.9%), white (30.0%), and other (3.5%). All identified a primary care practice as a source for well childcare. Most (58%) had given antipyretics to their child to avoid being called by childcare or elementary school staff about illness. Likert scale interview items addressing quality of care elicited low levels of worry or concern. Worry scores trended lower after experience. Among 532 comments about Health-e-Access elicited through open-ended probes, positive ones (likes) predominated 84.6%). Likes most commonly included convenience/time saved (33.6% of all comments), parent stayed at work (13.5%), drug delivered to child site (7.1%) or called ahead to pharmacy (4.9%), and confidence in care (2.3%). Negative responses (concerns) totaled 15.4% of comments and most commonly included reliability of diagnosis (2.6%), technical problems (1.3%), and preference for in-person care (0.8%). Conclusions: Health-e-Access was well accepted by a substantial, diverse group of parents despite unfamiliarity with this approach to care. Convenience and convenience-related experience dominated perceptions. This model enables service beyond that mandated by payers and beyond that generally provided by medical practices.
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