ArticleAmerican journal of medical genetics. Part A2021
Rapid deployment of a telemedicine care model for genetics and metabolism during COVID-19.
Article in American journal of medical genetics. Part A, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of no show or non-attendance rates among telehealth and in-person models of care.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Transforming clinical trials in rare genetic diseases through telemedicine.Journal of community genetics · 2026Review
- Artificial Intelligence, Connected Care, and Enabling Digital Health Technologies in Rare Diseases With a Focus on Lysosomal Storage Disorders: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Genetic testing and counseling for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: An evidence-based practice resource of the National Society of Genetic Counselors.Journal of genetic counseling · 2025Review
- Telehealth Is Effective in the Evaluation of Individuals With Undiagnosed Rare Disorders: An Undiagnosed Diseases Network Study.American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2025Article
- Medical students' knowledge on cancer predisposition syndromes and attitude toward eHealth.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2024Article
- Family perception of a telehealth program for people with cystic fibrosis during the COVID-19 pandemic in northeastern Brazil.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2023Article
- Newborn Screening in a Pandemic-Lessons Learned.International journal of neonatal screening · 2023Review
- Perspectives on the future of dysmorphology.American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2023Article
- Telehealth in genetic counselling consultations: the impact of COVID-19 in a Portuguese genetic healthcare service.Journal of community genetics · 2023Article
- Precision medicine for genetic epilepsy on the horizon: Recent advances, present challenges, and suggestions for continued progress.Epilepsia · 2022Review
- Epidemiology of 30,000 Pediatric Urgent Care Telemedicine Visits in the Era of COVID-19.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2022Article
- Disparities in germline testing among racial minorities with prostate cancer.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2022Review
- Telemedicine in the Amish and Mennonite communities of Wisconsin.Journal of community genetics · 2022Article
- Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical genetics and genomics training: Perspective from clinical trainees.American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2022Article
- Unmet Needs of Children with Inherited Metabolic Disorders in the COVID-19 Pandemic.Turkish archives of pediatrics · 2022Article
- Factors Influencing Patient Preferences for Telehealth Cancer Genetic Counseling During the COVID-19 Pandemic.JCO oncology practice · 2022Article
- Use of telemedicine for initial outpatient subspecialist consultative visit: A national survey of general pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists.Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
- Rapid Implementation of Telegenetic Counseling in the COVID-19 and Swedish Healthcare Context: A Feasibility Study.Frontiers in health services · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The national importance of telemedicine for safe and effective patient care has been highlighted by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the 2020 pandemic the Division of Genetics and Metabolism piloted a telemedicine program focused on initial and follow-up visits in the patients' home. The goals were to increase access to care, decrease missed work, improve scheduling, and avoid the transport and exposure of medically fragile patients. Visits were conducted by physician medical geneticists, genetic counselors, and biochemical dietitians, together and separately. This allowed the program to develop detailed standard operating procedures. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this pilot-program was deployed by the full team of 22 providers in one business day. Two physicians remained on-site for patients requiring in-person evaluations. This model optimized patient safety and workforce preservation while providing full access to patients during a pandemic. We provide initial data on visit numbers, types of diagnoses, and no-show rates. Experience in this implementation before and during the pandemic has confirmed the effectiveness and value of telemedicine for a highly complex medical population. This program is a model that can and will be continued well-beyond the current crisis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.