The clinical use of Skype-For which patients, with which problems and in which settings? A snapshot review of the literature

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 737-742

  Armfield, Nigel R ^a,b   Bradford, Madeleine ^a   Bradford, Natalie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Queensland Children s Medical Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Telehealth; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ELECTRONIC DATABASE; LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS; TELEHEALTH; TELEMEDICINE SERVICES;

TELEMEDICINE;

AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MOBILE PHONE; ORTHOPEDICS; PATHOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TELEMEDICINE; UROLOGY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

EID: 84940894170     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.06.006     Document Type: Review

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