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Filter by:With funding through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Tufts University's Telehealth Intervention Strategies for WIC (THIS-WIC) project, Wisconsin's (WI) WIC department will be implementing a new, customized, mobile-friendly nutrition education platform called ONE (Online Nutrition Education) in WI's WIC program. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the ONE platform. The evaluation will focus on WIC clients as the study population. The Wisconsin WIC department would be implementing this education platform, regardless of the evaluation research. The Wisconsin WIC department is responsible for implementing this new intervention, while the Tufts University research team is responsible for the evaluation of this platform through surveys and analysis of administrative data. An online survey will be used to gauge WIC clients' satisfaction with ONE, and the impact of the telehealth solution compared to usual care on breastfeed duration, dietary intake, attendance at scheduled appointments, attitudes to breastfeeding and nutrition education, and barriers encountered. Survey data will be combined with previously collected data on clients and their families from the WI Management Information Systems (MIS), and aggregate level data from the ONE telehealth solution about ONE utilization.
Bariatric surgery is recommended as the most efficacious treatment for patients living with obesity (body mass index [BMI; kg/m2] > 40; or BMI 35-39.9 with related medical conditions). Adoption of telehealth services offers an opportunity to reduce barriers and expand access to high quality specialty care for patients considering bariatric surgery for treatment of obesity. Two important advances in telehealth services occurred during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Specifically, the patient's home is now the origin site for all services where patients are no longer required to travel to a designated telehealth location, and the use of telehealth has expanded to multidisciplinary health care teams. Our bariatric surgery care team has gained valuable experience using a combination of face-to-face (F2F) and telehealth visits for multidisciplinary evaluation in preparation for bariatric surgery since March 2020. Appointments that do not require a physical exam like nutrition, psychology, group education, and medical visits after completion of pre-operative testing are particularly amenable to telehealth services. Increased use of telehealth has the potential to reduce barriers to care (e.g., lack of access to accredited bariatric surgery treatment centers, extended travel time for multiple pre-surgery appointments), increase adherence to required program visits, and increase patient satisfaction. Patient satisfaction variables may include reduced time away from work, flexibility in appointment scheduling, and reduced physical demands of multiple F2F visits. A necessary first step is to demonstrate that the protocol outlined below can be successfully implemented in a real-world clinical setting and is deemed acceptable by patients preparing for bariatric surgery.
The prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in the world is currently around 9.3% of adults aged between 20 and 79 years, which corresponds to 463 million people living with DM, and about 80% of these people are found in developing countries. In Brazil, fourth in the number of patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM2) in the world, the prevalence of DM is around 12%, with a significant increase in the last three decades. Non-adherence to DM treatment is known as a problem in the scenario and internationally, as it impairs the physiological response to the disease, increasing the direct and indirect cost of treatment. Pharmaceutical care is a practice model characterized by the provision of pharmaceutical services that optimize treatment, improve the process of medicines used, and aim at their best use. With the calamity situation arising from the COVID-19 pandemic created in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the Pharmaceutical Telecare service was implemented. Dapagliflozin was recently incorporated into the Brazilian public system for the treatment of type 2 DM. Considering that there are no studies in Brazil to date on the use, treatment adherence, and problems related to pharmacotherapy (PRM) associated with dapagliflozin, and also considering that the guidance and monitoring of patients remotely have become more frequent and necessary, the purpose of this protocol is to describe a clinical trial that will evaluate the impact of a pharmaceutical telecare service in aspects related to treatment adherence, disease control, and costs, offered to people with DM2 using dapagliflozin. The hypothesis that will be tested is that Pharmaceutical Telecare can be as effective as standard care for type 2 diabetes and assess the associated costs related to teleconsultation in public health settings.
Fertility management refers to the entirety of practices that allow families to have as many children as they want and when they want, prevent unwanted pregnancies, regulate the time between two births and receive help in having children in the case of infertility. According to the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey 2018 data, 70% of women in Turkey who are currently married do not use any contraceptive method. Based on the same data, the rate of the unmet need for fertility management is 12% nationwide, 14% in eastern provinces, and 17% in women at the ages of 20-24. These rates show that the rates of unmet fertility management needs in Turkey are still not on the desired level. The fact that eastern provinces of Turkey have the lowest rate of modern contraceptive method use as 43% and a high rate of unmet fertility management needs as 14% suggests that it is needed to increase the effectiveness of fertility management counseling and reach more women. In these eastern provinces, especially women living in rural areas do not have easy access to these services due to the high prevalence of adolescent marriages, lack of transportation opportunities, healthcare personnel and healthcare services, and unpredictable weather conditions.
Teleconsultation is a telemedicine medical act carried out remotely via information and communication technologies. This medical procedure has been legal in France since 2010 and reimbursed by the National Health Insurance under certain conditions since 2018. In 2020, following the COVID-19 epidemic, the lockdowns and the extension of the scope of financial coverage, 17 million teleconsultations have been reimbursed. To date, few scientific studies have been published in France to precisely describe the use of the service giving access to outpatient teleconsultation, in particular since the major increase in activity linked to the COVID-19 epidemic. The objective is to describe the use of the service giving access to outpatient teleconsultation carried out in France by teleconsultation companies and compare the use of the teleconsultation service according to the medical density of the territory.
This study will test the feasibility of a telehealth follow-up visit for patients and their caregivers who were recently discharged from a general pediatric inpatient unit.
Appropriate use of antibiotics reduces resistance and protects patients from unnecessary harm. Important advances in antibiotic stewardship have been achieved in outpatient settings, but little is known about stewardship in the rapidly growing telehealth sector. Prior pragmatic randomized trials have shown that Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Core Element interventions constructed using insights from decision and social psychology can greatly reduce inappropriate prescribing in outpatient settings. In a randomized trial, the investigators will adapt and test two aspects of CDC Core Elements in a telehealth environment (Teladoc®), each with two levels of intensity. Teladoc® clinicians will be randomized to the following interventions: 1) Performance Feedback (Trending, Benchmark Peer Comparison), 2) Commitment (Private, Public), or 3) Control. All randomization occurs at the provider level, with the exception of the Public Commitment arm, which requires patient-facing content that is determined by patient state. Clinicians and members will see the same messages across all pages, all channels & all consults during the 12-month study period. The primary outcome is to assess change in antibiotic prescribing rate for qualifying acute respiratory infection visits (ARIs).
The purpose of this research study is to evaluate a time-limited version of Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) delivered via telehealth for young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and disruptive behavior problems. Families will be randomly assigned to receive 10 sessions of Tele-PCIT or Treatment as Usual. Families will complete a baseline assessment, a post-treatment assessment, and a 3-month follow-up.
This project will focus on developing, optimizing and pilot-testing a multi-component Improving Access Through Technology (ImPAcTT) intervention that leverages existing telehealth technologies to provide staff education; family outreach, engagement and support; care coordination; and resident symptom management and facilitation of goals-of-care discussion.
The direct and indirect costs of treating diabetes are high. 10-15% of the health budgets of many countries are spent on diabetes treatment. Most of these expenses are due to the treatment and follow-up costs of complications seen in patients who are not well monitored and whose metabolic control is not achieved. the rapid increase in diabetes causes polyclinic and hospital services to become more intense. Despite the increasing number of patients, both performance and due to non-physician occupational groups' insufficiency (Diabetes Dietician, Diabetes Nurse), patients can only be given an appointment once a year, and patients cannot be allocated sufficient time during the appointment. Since these problems are valid worldwide, Telemedicine programs are designed to provide easy, cheap, and practical follow-up and treatment of many chronic diseases in various states of the USA and many developed European countries.