Telemedicine for Routine Follow-up of Post-operative Pediatric Patients

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Delivery of healthcare via video-chat (i.e. telemedicine) is growing in interest and applicability and has been shown to increase patient satisfaction. It minimizes travel costs and time expenditure for patients and families and more recently has been widely implemented to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. The aim of this study was to determine if pediatric surgeons could routinely offer telemedicine technologies to patients’ families for post-operative follow-up care. METHODS: We prospectively identified patients aged 5-18 years old who were scheduled to undergo one of …