BACKGROUND This project sought to identify the most common telepathology consultation needs of pathologists based on the anatomic section of tissue to improve quality of consultations. METHODS This cross-sectional study used a questionnaire with four questions to assess pathologists' consultation needs. The questionnaire was distributed to the 16 pathologists recruited for this study. All 16 ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the determinants of practice location and of outreach consultation of recently graduated psychiatrists. METHODS We surveyed 153 psychiatrists who graduated from the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry between January 1990 and June 2002 (response rate 51%), on the basis of a self-administered mail questionnaire. The survey assessed factors that influenced pract...

BACKGROUND Indigenous populations of Australia and Canada experience disproportionately high rates of chronic disease. Our goal was to compare cardiovascular (CVD) risk profile and diabetes complications from three recent comprehensive studies of diabetes complications in different Indigenous populations in Australia and Canada. METHODS We compared participants from three recent studies: remo...

Electronic health care (e-health) services intended for Finnish citizens have been recently developed nationally, regionally, and locally through several projects programs. This study aimed to investigate the development availability of e-health in specialized primary private medical service providers from 2011 2020. In addition, differences between different sectors regional hospital districts...

BACKGROUND Teleconsultation is a guarantor for virtual supervision of clinical professors on clinical decisions made by medical residents in teaching hospitals. Type, format, volume, and quality of exchanged information have a great influence on the quality of remote clinical decisions or tele-decisions. Thus, it is necessary to develop a reliable and standard model for these clinical relations...

I read Salisbury’s article on remote consultations with interest.1 The value many patients place their doctor’s ability to diagnose based clinical examination is interesting. have been the other side of consultation, hearing my relatives complain when “the doctor didn’t even examine me.” It a lesson all medical students: reassure after exam, not before. exam itself might …

Good morning, I am Doctor Butel. How can help you? This is the routine opening of my remote consultation for a person from ‘bush’, which may be just out town, station, an island or offshore fishing boat. Telehealth consultations are primarily patient history–centric consult. The interaction has some essential underlying elements, which, although obvious, need to considered.