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Pros and cons of telemedicine in diagnosis and management: A cross sectional survey.

Research Authors
Heba A Yassa, Aliae AR Mohamed Hussein, Hoda A Makhlouf, Nahed A Makhlouf, Hadeer Mahmoud S Youssef, Rehab SA Sotohy, Abdelhakeem A Essa
Research Date
Research Department
Research Journal
Electronic Journal of General Medicine
Research Vol
19
Research Year
2022
Research Abstract

Method: Survey was done and validated to health care worker sectors, patients and judicial workers sectors, to evaluate the telemedicine according to their practice.

Results: about one thousand volunteers shared in this study, 616 (61.3%), 68 (6.8%) judicial workers, and 320 (31.9%) other jobs. Most of doctors 95% of them refuse to use telemedicine in the provisional diagnosis, 77.3% claim that it is very difficult to give accurate diagnosis through media, 75.6% of them convinced that telemedicine and increase the malpractice issues and medical responsibilities. In judicial workers 64.7% of them prove that there is increase in malpractice issues due to use of media. On the other side 55% of the other job sectors agree with the use of telemedicine especially in time of epidemics.

Conclusion: Telemedicine has many pros and cons. The main cons were that the inability to give the actual diagnosis and occurrence of medical errors, while the main pros was that the use of telemedicine to follow up already diagnosed patient. Governments should legalize the using of telemedicine by enacting law that prohibit the use of it except between doctors to take medical decision or exchange opinion.