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Covid-19 patients' satisfaction with quality of medical care provided in the form of telemedicine consultations

N. Polunina, A. Tyazhelnikov, A. Pogonin, E. Kostenko,
2021

The paper reports the results of survey carried out in order to assess patients' opinion on the remote medical care provided by the telemedicine center of the Department of health of Moscow during the pandemic. Survey of 216 COVID-19 patients who received outpatient care made it possible to assess their health condition and determine the factors contributing to satisfaction with care provided. Patients' health condition was evaluated based on the course of underlying disease and comorbidities, which were revealed in 24.3% of COVID-19 patients. The following three groups were formed: Patients with favorable (37.5%), satisfactory (36.7%) and unfavorable (25.8%) health condition. The majority of patients (76.4%) were satisfied with telemedicine consultations; men (79.8%), individuals with favorable condition (83.1%) and patients under 50 (81.9%) demonstrated significantly higher level of satisfaction. The following arguments in favour of telemedicine consultations were specified by patients: Appointment of the specialist's consultation, promptness of treatment appointment, provision of medical recommendations, including recommendations on a healthy lifestyle, as well as promptness of house call and ambulance call. The main dissatisfaction reasons were as follows: Lack of appropriate equipment, difficulties when setting up the equipment, complexity of the instructions for connecting to telemedicine consultations, poor quality of video/audio conferencing; these indicated the patients' inadequate technical resources. Telemedicine consultations may be considered an effective method of outpatient care provision for COVID-19 patients, especially since 64.7% of patients plan to use telemedicine consultations in the future, and 72.3% of patients are ready to recommend them to others. © 2020 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University. All rights reserved.

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  • N. Polunina
    Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • A. Tyazhelnikov
    Consultative and Diagnostic Polyclinic NO. 121, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • A. Pogonin
    Spasokukotsky City Clinical Hospital, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • E. Kostenko
    Moscow Centre for Research and Practice in Medical Rehabilitation, Restorative and Sports Medicine, Moscow, Russian Federation
Название журнала
  • Bulletin of Russian State Medical University
Выпуск
  • 6
Страницы
  • 135-140
Ключевые слова
  • adult; anosmia; Article; body temperature; comorbidity; conjunctivitis; controlled study; coronavirus disease 2019; coughing; data completeness; dyspnea; female; headache; hospital management; human; major clinical study; male; medical care; medical record; morbidity; outpatient; outpatient care; pandemic; patient satisfaction; questionnaire; sex difference; sleep disorder; teleconsultation; videoconferencing; videorecording; weakness
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  • Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
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  • journal article
Тип лицензии Creative Commons
  • CC
Правовой статус документа
  • Свободная лицензия
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  • scopus