Clinician attitudes toward adoption of pediatric emergency telemedicine in rural hospitals

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 250-257

  Ray, Kristin N ^a   Felmet, Kathryn A ^b   Hamilton, Melinda F ^b   Kuza, Courtney C ^a   Saladino, Richard A ^b   Schultz, Brian R ^b   Watson, R Scott ^a,b   Kahn, Jeremy M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Implementation; Rural; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTENT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TELEMEDICINE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84954538207     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000583     Document Type: Article

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