Applying Telemedicine to Multidisciplinary Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care

Multidisciplinary care is essential to the delivery of comprehensive, whole-person care for children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Team members may include medical, psychosocial, and ancillary providers as well as patient and family advocates. There is significant variability in how this care is delivered from center to center, though prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, most care occurred during in-person visits. At the onset of the pandemic, medical systems world-wide were challenged to continue delivering high quality, comprehensive care, requiring many centers to turn to telemedicine technology. The aim of this manuscript is to describe the process by which we converted our multidisciplinary pediatric and adolescent IBD visits to a telemedicine model by leveraging technology, a multidisciplinary team, and quality improvement (QI) methods. Finally, we put our experience into context by summarizing the literature on telemedicine in IBD care, with a focus on pediatrics and multidisciplinary care.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Children (Basel, Switzerland) - 8(2021), 5 vom: 21. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Michel, Hilary K [VerfasserIn]
Maltz, Ross M [VerfasserIn]
Boyle, Brendan [VerfasserIn]
Donegan, Amy [VerfasserIn]
Dotson, Jennifer L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Crohn’s disease
Inflammatory bowel disease
Journal Article
Multidisciplinary care
Telemedicine
Ulcerative colitis

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Date Revised 12.06.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/children8050315

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM32472666X