Title
How effective are teleconsults to persuade patients of pulmonary tuberculosis of avoiding to use public transport at Lima City?
Date Issued
16 August 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
We have selected 12 pulmonary Tuberculosis patients from Peri-urban zones of Lima city where all of them are still using public transport to visit hospitals and health centers. Patients were involved in the testing of a prototype of teleconsult which was based in phone calls and text messages giving as result that the number of hours/month of mobility of TB patient in Lima city using buses and minibuses was reduced in average in a 6.4±3%. However, when teleconsult is combined to an aggressive program of nurse's visit it might be possible that the number of hours/month would be reduced by a 44.7± 6 %. This result might indicate that eHealth system applied to TB patients would need of human assistance in a first phase of implementation, until patient becomes well trained in the usage of the eHealth software and related details.
Start page
333
End page
334
Volume
2016-August
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistema respiratorio
Enfermedades infecciosas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84987624283
Source
Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
ISSN of the container
10637125
ISBN of the container
9781467390361
Conference
29th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2016
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