Barriers to pilot mobile teleophthalmology in a rural hospital in Southern Malawi

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 19, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pérez, Guillermo Martínez ^a   Swart, Wayne ^b   Munyenyembe, Jimmy Kondwani ^a   Saranchuk, Peter ^a  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Eye diseases; HIV AIDS; Malawi; MHealth; Mteleophthalmology; Opportunistic infections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MALAWI; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOBILE TELEOPHTHALMOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PHYSICIAN; PILOT STUDY; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TELEMEDICINE; WORKLOAD; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; COMPLICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EYE DISEASES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; VIROLOGY;

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EYE DISEASES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MALAWI; PILOT PROJECTS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84919716999     PISSN: 19378688     EISSN: 19378688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2014.19.136.5196     Document Type: Article

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