Realtime fetal ultrasound by telemedicine in Queensland. A successful venture?
J Telemed Telecare
; 7 Suppl 2: 7-11, 2001.
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ABSTRACT
We have established a realtime fetal tele-ultrasound consultation service in Queensland, which has been integrated into our routine clinical practice. The service, which uses ISDN transmission at 384 kbit/s, allows patients in Townsville to be examined by subspecialists in Brisbane, 1500 km away. For the 90 tele-ultrasound consultations performed for the first 71 patients, 90% of the babies have been delivered, and outcome data have been received on all the pregnancies. All significant anomalies and diagnoses have been confirmed. The referring clinicians would have physically referred 24 of the 71 patients to Brisbane in the absence of telemedicine. A crude cost-benefit calculation suggests that the tele-ultrasound service resulted in a net saving of A$6340, and at the same time enabled almost four times the number of consultations to be carried out.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Complicações na Gravidez
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Cuidado Pré-Natal
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Ultrassonografia Pré-Natal
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Consulta Remota
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Telemed Telecare
Assunto da revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Austrália