Assessing Telemedicine Efficiency in Follow-up Care With Video Consultations for Patients in Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery in Germany: Randomized Controlled Trial

• Main Authors: Jennifer Muschol (Author), Martin Heinrich (Author), Christian Heiss (Author), Gero Knapp (Author), Holger Repp (Author), Henning Schneider (Author), Ulrich Thormann (Author), Johanna Uhlar (Author), Kai Unzeitig (Author), Christian Gissel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundTelemedicine can help mitigate important health care challenges, such as demographic changes and the current COVID-19 pandemic, in high-income countries such as Germany. It gives physicians and patients the opportunity to interact via video consultations, regardless of their location, thus...