Telemedicine for the Medicare Population: Pediatric, Obstetric, and Clinician-Indirect Home Interventions. Evidence/Report/Technology Assessment Number 24, Supplement.

摘要

The goal of this report is to extend our original evidence report on the efficacy of telemedicine by extending the assessment to the pediatrics and obstetrics populations along with receiving home telemedicine where the health care provider was involved in an indirect manner. As with the initial report, which covered telemedicine for the Medicare population, we assessed telemedicine services that substitute for face-to-face medical diagnosis and treatment and focused on three distinct telemedicine study areas-store and forward, self-monitoring/testing, and clinician-interactive services. We conducted a search in the peer-reviewed literature for studies assessing the efficacy and cost of telemedicine in the study areas and designated populations. The search focused on peer-reviewed articles in the MEDLINE, CINAHL, and HealthSTAR databases. We also identified relevant articles through hand searching and reference lists in key papers.