Effect of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Patients Valuation of Usability of Telemedicine.
Stud Health Technol Inform
; 310: 394-398, 2024 Jan 25.
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| ID: mdl-38269832
ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper was to report patient valuation of usability with our telemedicine system and to explore the effect of pandemic in its behavior. We conducted a cross-sectional study based on the prospective recollection of the results of the Spanish abbreviated version of the Telehealth Usability Questionnaire (TUQ), from October 2019 to July 2020. We observed an inflection point of growth of answers during the pandemic era and a trend of decrease in usability valuations coinciding with the massive and forced implementation of the system after lockdown. This effect was transitory, evidencing an improvement over time. These results might be explained with a sociotechnical approach that includes considering the learning curve and suggest the importance of a telemedicine usability tool to guide decision-making. In conclusion, tools to assess telemedicine services may identify facilitators and barriers to its use in a highly changing social and technological context.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Contexto en salud:
1_ASSA2030
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2_ODS3
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4_TD
Problema de salud:
1_doencas_nao_transmissiveis
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1_doencas_transmissiveis
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2_enfermedades_transmissibles
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2_muertes_prematuras_enfermedades_notrasmisibles
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4_pneumonia
Asunto principal:
Telemedicina
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Stud Health Technol Inform
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Stud. health technol. inform.
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Studies in health technology and informatics (Online)
Asunto de la revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
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PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Argentina