The role of a virtual telephone clinic in the follow-up management of lateral skull base tumours

Autor:	R McConn Walsh, Mohsen Javadpour, S Hogan, D. Rawluk, J Hintze, C Fitzgerald
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Travel medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors business.industry General surgery Aftercare General Medicine Skull Base Neoplasms Telemedicine Patient Care Management Telephone Skull medicine.anatomical_structure Otorhinolaryngology medicine Humans Prospective Studies business
Zdroj:	The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 134:1081-1084
ISSN:	1748-5460 0022-2151
DOI:	10.1017/s0022215120002546
Popis:	ObjectiveThe purpose of this article was to determine the impact of employing a telephone clinic for follow-up of patients with stable lateral skull-base tumours.MethodAn analysis of 1515 patients in the national lateral skull-base service was performed, and 148 patients enrolled in the telephone clinic to date were identified. The length of time that patients waited for results of their follow-up scans and the travel distance saved by patients not having to attend the hospital for their results was determined.ResultsThe mean time from scan to receiving results was 30.5 ± 32 days, 14 days sooner than in the face-to-face group (p = 0.0016). The average round-trip distance travelled by patients to the hospital for results of their scans was 256 ± 131 km.ConclusionThe telephone clinic led to a significant reduction in time until patients received their scan results and helped reduce travel distance and clinic numbers in traditional face-to-face clinics.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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