A Data Model for Teleconsultation in Managing High-Risk Pregnancies: Design and Preliminary Evaluation

Autor: Deldar, Kolsoum, Tara, Fatemeh, Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz, Khajedaluee, Mohammad, Tara, Mahmood
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Zdroj: JMIR Medical Informatics
ISSN: 2291-9694
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.8393
Popis: Background: Teleconsultation is a guarantor for virtual supervision of clinical professors on clinical decisions made by medical residents in teaching hospitals. Type, format, volume, and quality of exchanged information have a great influence on the quality of remote clinical decisions or tele-decisions. Thus, it is necessary to develop a reliable and standard model for these clinical relationships. Objective: The goal of this study was to design and evaluate a data model for teleconsultation in the management of high-risk pregnancies. Methods: This study was implemented in three phases. In the first phase, a systematic review, a qualitative study, and a Delphi approach were done in selected teaching hospitals. Systematic extraction and localization of diagnostic items to develop the tele-decision clinical archetypes were performed as the second phase. Finally, the developed model was evaluated using predefined consultation scenarios. Results: Our review study has shown that present medical consultations have no specific structure or template for patient information exchange. Furthermore, there are many challenges in the remote medical decision-making process, and some of them are related to the lack of the mentioned structure. The evaluation phase of our research has shown that data quality (P
Databáze: OpenAIRE