ReviewWorld neurosurgery2020
Telemedicine in the Era of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Neurosurgical Perspective.
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60 citing papers in PubMed, 135 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of COVID-19 on anatomy education: a student-based survey and future perspectives.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Why did individuals seeking COVID-19 advice return to internet hospitals for follow-up in the early pandemic: Insights from machine learning.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The COVID-19 pandemic experience for patients with central nervous system tumors: Differences in patient-reported outcomes and practice recommendations.Neuro-oncology practice · 2025Article
- The impact of Internet-based healthcare derived from the COVID-19 pandemic on outpatients in a cardiology department.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Integrating Fitness Training in Oncologic Care: Lessons Learned from a Large Telemedicine Trial.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2024Article
- Public and Research Interest in Telemedicine From 2017 to 2022: Infodemiology Study of Google Trends Data and Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Literature.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Post-discharge follow-up of patients with spine trauma in the National Spinal Cord Injury Registry of Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and lessons learned.Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi · 2024Observational
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Everyday Neurosurgical Practice in Alsace, France: Lessons Learned, Current Perspectives, and Future Challenges-Preliminary Results of a Longitudinal Multicentric Study Registry.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- COVID-19 and persistent symptoms: implications for polycystic ovary syndrome and its management.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- Telepharmacy Implementation to Support Pharmaceutical Care Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review.The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy · 2024Article
- Evaluation of Nurse Navigator Support for Patients During Telehealth Neurosurgery Clinics.Journal of patient experience · 2024Article
- A smartphone-based online platform for clinical skills training and assessment with standardized patients: platform development and pilot study outcomes.Medical education online · 2023Article
- [Pediatric telecardiology experience in the COVID-19 pandemic context].Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico · 2023Article
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-Bulbar Dysfunction Index-Remote: Test-Retest and Interrater Reliability of Candidate Items.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023Article
- Letter to Editor Regarding : "The Direction of Neurosurgery to Overcome the Living with COVID-19 Era : The Possibility of Telemedicine in Neurosurgery".Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2023Article
- Impact of Covid-19 on Pediatric Ophthalmology Care: Lessons Learned.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2023Review
- Telemedicine and intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms: Analysis of a new follow-up strategy during COVID-19 outbreak.Surgery · 2022Observational
- The impact of telephone consultations due to COVID-19 on paediatric neurosurgical health services.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Patient Satisfaction with Tele- and Video-Consultation in the COVID-19 Era - A Survey of Vascular Surgical Patients.Annals of vascular surgery · 2022Article
- Telemedicine in Neurosurgical Trauma during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single-Center Experience.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Despite the substantial growth of telemedicine and the evidence of its advantages, the use of telemedicine in neurosurgery has been limited. Barriers have included medicolegal issues surrounding provider reimbursement, interstate licensure, and malpractice liability as well as technological challenges. Recently, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has limited typical evaluation of patients with neurologic issues and resulted in a surge in demand for virtual medical visits. Meanwhile, federal and state governments took action to facilitate the rapid implementation of telehealth programs, placing a temporary lift on medicolegal barriers that had previously limited its expansion. This created a unique opportunity for widespread telehealth use to meet the surge in demand for remote medical care. After initial hurdles and challenges, our experience with telemedicine in neurosurgery at Penn Medicine has been overall positive from both the provider and the patients' perspective. One of the unique challenges we face is guiding patients to appropriately set up devices in a way that enables an effective neuroexamination. However, we argue that an accurate and comprehensive neurologic examination can be conducted through a telemedicine platform, despite minor weaknesses inherent to absence of physical presence. In addition, certain neurosurgical visits such as postoperative checks, vascular pathology, and brain tumors inherently lend themselves to easier evaluation through telehealth visits. In the era of COVID-19 and beyond, telemedicine remains a promising and effective approach to continue neurologic patient care.
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