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- Title
Equity in telemedicine for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Authors
Kuang, Weihong; Zeng, Guojun; Nie, Yunbo; Cai, Yan; Li, Jin; Wan, Yang; Qiu, Peiyuan
- Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred an unprecedented paradigm shift to telemedicine across healthcare fields in order to limit exposure to the virus. At the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, telemedicine has been used to perform COVID-19-related tele-education to health professionals and the general population, as well as tele-diagnosis, online treatment and internet-based drug prescription and delivery. However, many older adults could not make appointments with doctors due to difficulty using the internet-based platform. Careful attention needs to be paid by future researchers and policymakers in order to mitigate barriers older adults face when using telemedicine.
- Subjects
OLDER people; COVID-19 pandemic; COVID-19; MEDICAL personnel; TELEMEDICINE
- Publication
International Health (1876-3413), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 3, p329
- ISSN
1876-3413
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/inthealth/ihab058