Access and quality of care in direct-to-consumer telemedicine

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 282-287

  Uscher Pines, Lori ^a   Mulcahy, Andrew ^a   Cowling, David ^b   Hunter, Gerald ^a   Burns, Rachel ^a   Mehrotra, Ateev ^c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b California Public Employees Retirement System   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

commercial telemedicine; emergency medicine teletrauma; telehealth; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; DIAGNOSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION USE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICINE;

COMMERCIAL TELEMEDICINES; DATA AND INFORMATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; ON-GOING MONITORING; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; TELEHEALTH;

TELEMEDICINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CALIFORNIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTOR; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OFFICE VISITS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962128730     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2015.0079     Document Type: Article

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