A telemedicine service for HIV/AIDS physicians working in developing countries.

Abstract:

:In 2003, the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp set up an Internet-based decision support service to assist health-care workers in the management of difficult HIV/AIDS cases. This service is available to physicians working in resource-limited settings. Between April 2003 and December 2009, the telemedicine service received 1058 queries, from more than 40 countries, mostly resource-constrained. In the first six years there were 952 queries, of which 459 (49%) were posted on the web-based telemedicine discussion forum and the rest sent by email. All queries were handled by a co-ordinator who forwarded them to a network of specialists, based at the ITM and at other institutions. The average time to provide a first reply was 24 hours. Almost half of the queries received in the first six years (n = 466) were related to the use of antiretroviral medications. The response rate to a user questionnaire was 19% (73 questionnaires returned out of 387 delivered): half of those (n = 37) came from active users and the remainder (n = 36) from clinicians who had never used the system. The user survey showed that telemedicine advice was valuable in the management of specific cases, and significantly influenced the way that clinicians managed other similar cases subsequently. Nonetheless, there was a declining trend in the rate of use of the service.

journal_name

J Telemed Telecare

authors

Zolfo M,Bateganya MH,Adetifa IM,Colebunders R,Lynen L

doi

10.1258/jtt.2010.100308

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-01-01 00:00:00

pages

65-70

issue

2

eissn

1357-633X

issn

1758-1109

pii

jtt.2010.100308

journal_volume

17

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