使用eConsult增加儿童专家医疗保健的机会:一项追溯观察队列和病例控制研究
Lillian Lai1, Sophia Roubos2, Dhenuka Radhakrishnan3,4
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
香BASETM电子咨询服务 (eConsult) 避免了专家转诊,只有不到5%的患者需要随访. 这种eConsult方法是安全的,具有成本效益,并提高了医疗保健系统的效率.
科学领域:
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 数字健康数字健康
- 儿科护理 儿科护理
背景情况:
- 初级保健医生 (PCP) 使用eConsult服务来减少面对面 (FTF) 专家推.
- 有关eConsult.服务的潜在重复和患者不良结果存在担忧.
- 香BASETM电子咨询 (eConsult) 服务是初级保健医生的一个关键工具.
研究的目的:
- 为了评估患者在eConsult后的医疗保健利用率和相关治疗成本,避免了FTF专家转诊.
- 为了比较eConsult和匹配的FTF访问之间的医疗保健利用率和成本.
- 评估初级保健医生对eConsult服务的满意度.
主要方法:
- 2014-2018年间对儿科患者 (<18岁) 的回顾性队列研究,eConsult避免了FTF转诊.
- 将患者数据与省级卫生行政数据库和电子病历联系起来,用于18个月后的eConsult利用分析.
- 追溯病例控制研究,比较eConsult的使用率和成本与相同诊断的匹配FTF访问.
主要成果:
- 不到5%的eConsult患者需要随后的医疗保健系统访问相同的诊断和专业.
- 与eConsult.相比,面对面 (FTF) 访问导致门诊访问显著增加 (12.6倍),成本增加.
- 在eConsult队列中没有观察到入院或死亡; 98%的PCP评价该服务为优秀.
结论:
- eConsult与相同情况的FTF后续访问的最小数量有关,这表明最初的有效性很高.
- 与传统的FTF专家访问相比,eConsult导致医疗保健利用率和成本降低.
- 儿科的eConsult服务是安全,高效和具有成本效益的,增强了医疗保健系统的能力,并可能减少选择性专家转诊.
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