Following COVID-19 clinicians now overwhelmingly accept virtual clinics in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Al-Izzi, T, Breeze, J and Elledge, R (2020) Following COVID-19 clinicians now overwhelmingly accept virtual clinics in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery. ISSN 1532-1940. This article is available to all UHB staff and students via ASK Discovery tool http://tinyurl.com/z795c8c by using their UHB Athens login IDs

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Abstract

Virtual consultations and telemedicine have been an emerging trend in modern medicine, which has seen acceleration in uptake across a wide range of specialties as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following on from previous work by the authors in 2019 examining clinician and patient appetite for virtual consultations in maxillofacial surgery, we sought to evaluate whether there had been a change in attitudes as a result of the pandemic. A clinician survey of the consultants at a large teaching hospital and prospective data collection of virtual consultation outcomes was carried out from the inception of UK government lockdown measures to tackle the pandemic. From 151 consultations, 149 (98.7%) successfully established a working diagnosis and treatment plan and/or concluded an episode of patient care, without the need to convert to a face-to-face encounter between clinician and patient. The total number of consultations (virtual or otherwise) was significantly lower than the same time period the preceding year however (1,223 compared with 465 consultations). All consultants surveyed felt the pandemic had altered their opinion of virtual clinics and their place in maxillofacial surgery but cited a number of issues. Further work is required to understand the driving forces behind staff attitudes and the long-term adoption of telemedicine within the specialty as services return to some sense of normalcy.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article is available to all UHB staff and students via ASK Discovery tool http://tinyurl.com/z795c8c by using their UHB Athens login IDs
Subjects:	WA Patients. Primary care. Medical profession. Forensic medicine WC Communicabable diseases WF Respiratory system. Respiratory medicine WU Dentistry. Oral surgery
Divisions:	Planned IP Care > Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Related URLs:	https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32798104...
Depositing User:	Jamie Edgar
Date Deposited:	21 Aug 2020 13:49
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2020 13:49
URI:	http://www.repository.uhblibrary.co.uk/id/eprint/3372

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