Consumers’ experiences, preferences, and perceptions of effectiveness in using telehealth for cancer care in Australia

Banbury, Annie; Taylor, Monica; Caffery, Liam; Der Vartanian, Carolyn; Haydon, Helen; Mendis, Roshni; Ng, Kawai; Smith, Anthony

doi:10.1111/ajco.14002

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“…With the widespread use of online communication tools that have taken place in the past 3 years, a more detailed understanding of the impact of this on communication in many areas of medicine is evolving. 21,22,23,24…”

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British Congenital Cardiac Association Fetal Cardiology Standards: impact of Patient and Public involvement exercise on the development of clinical standards

Bluebond-Langner,

Wakeling,

Vincent

et al. 2023

Cardiol Young

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Objective: To examine the impact of a Patient and Public Involvement exercise on the development of British Congenital Cardiac Association Fetal Cardiology Standards 2021. Design: Open-ended, semi-structured interviews were undertaken to inform the design of a study to improve the quality of parents’ experiences during antenatal and perinatal care of their child with CHD. This Patient and Public Involvement exercise was used to inform the final version of the drafted ‘Standards’. Setting: One-on-one interviews with parents who responded to a request on the closed Facebook page of the user group “Little Hearts Matter”: “Would you be interested in helping us to design a study about parents’ experience on learning that their child had CHD”? Patients: Parents of children with single ventricle CHD. Results: Twenty-one parents (18 mothers, 3 fathers) participated. Parents responses were reported to have variably reinforced, augmented, and added specificity in the later stages of drafting to six of the seven subsections of Section C Information and Support for Parents including: “At the time of the Scan”; “Counselling following the identification of an abnormality”; “Written information/resources”; “Parent support”; “Communication with other teams and ongoing care”; and “Bereavement support”. Conclusions: This Patient and Public Involvement exercise successfully informed the development of Standards after the initial drafting. It contributed to the establishment of face validity of the ‘Standards’, especially when consistent with what is reported in the literature. Further research is needed to explore approaches to involving and standardising Patient and Public Involvement in the development of clinical standards.

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British Congenital Cardiac Association Fetal Cardiology Standards: impact of Patient and Public involvement exercise on the development of clinical standards

Bluebond-Langner,

Wakeling,

Vincent

et al. 2023

Cardiol Young

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Telemedicine: Does it have a place in surgical oncology practice?

Kelley,

Kelly,

Rechner

et al. 2024

J Telemed Telecare

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Background Telemedicine has gained traction in surgical subspecialties, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to identify whether telemedicine can be appropriately integrated within surgical oncology practice. Methods This retrospective study evaluated patients who received either telemedicine or office follow-up after undergoing surgical oncology operations between 2016 and 2021. The telemedicine group (TG) and office group (OG) received a 15-question survey regarding their satisfaction with their care. Patient outcomes and responses were analyzed utilizing propensity-score matching in 1:1 fashion. Results Telemedicine group and OG each had 21 patients. Length of stay, complication frequency, follow-up frequency, and readmissions frequency within 90-days were comparable between groups. Telemedicine group expressed comparable satisfaction with postoperative care relative to OG (95.2% vs. 85.7%, p = 0.61). All telemedicine patients said they would utilize telemedicine again in the future and would recommend its use to others. Conclusion Patient satisfaction with postoperative telemedicine follow-up is comparable to those with in-person follow-up.

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Patients’ preferences for virtual outpatient consultations and health care professionals’ assessment of suitability for their patients: A single-centre survey

Schultz,

Honnens,

Bauer

et al. 2024

J Telemed Telecare

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Objectives To explore patients’ preferences regarding virtual consultations (via telephone or video) and to explore healthcare professionals’ assessment of whether virtual consultations can maintain the same clinical quality as in-person consultations for outpatient care. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted among patients with an in-person consultation at the outpatient clinic for internal medicine and among healthcare professionals who treated the patients. The prevalence of preference was determined using descriptive statistics based on cross-tabulated frequencies. Percentages are presented with 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). Results In total, 218 patients (response rate 67%) completed the questionnaire; 79 patients (36%) preferred a virtual consultation (95%CI: 30%–43%); telephones were the most popular and preferred by 72 patients (33%; 95%CI: 27%–39%) followed by video preferred by 54 patients (25%; 95%CI: 19%–31%). Regarding contextual factors, male gender and previous experiences with telephone or video consultations were statistically significant predictors in favour of virtual consultations. Healthcare professionals estimated that 58 consultations (21%; 95%CI: 17%–26%) could have been conducted virtually with the same professional and clinical quality as the current in-person consultations. Conclusions Current practice does not fully align with patient preferences for virtual visits in internal medicine outpatient clinics. Patients should be given the choice of virtual consultations whenever they are deemed professionally and clinically possible to enhance patient autonomy and satisfaction, while being mindful of speciality-specific considerations.

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Consumers’ experiences, preferences, and perceptions of effectiveness in using telehealth for cancer care in Australia

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

British Congenital Cardiac Association Fetal Cardiology Standards: impact of Patient and Public involvement exercise on the development of clinical standards

British Congenital Cardiac Association Fetal Cardiology Standards: impact of Patient and Public involvement exercise on the development of clinical standards

Telemedicine: Does it have a place in surgical oncology practice?

Patients’ preferences for virtual outpatient consultations and health care professionals’ assessment of suitability for their patients: A single-centre survey

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