Assessing the quality of teleconsultations in a store-and-forward telemedicine network - long-term monitoring taking into account differences between cases

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Wootton, Richard ^a,b   Liu, Joanne ^c   Bonnardot, Laurent ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

LMICs; Quality assurance; Quality control; Telehealth; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978879757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00211     Document Type: Article

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