[Transitional care from hospital to home: how to target the right population?].

When patients are discharged from the hospital and return home, they are at risk of adverse events if the continuity of care is broken. So far, the evidence for transitional care models to reduce readmission rates has focused mainly on patients with a single condition. Based on this observation, we identified the population that may benefit the most from the development of a new transitional care model, as part of the INSTEAD project, by consensus between patients and professionals in hospitals and the community.

[Mobile applications for smoking cessation in primary care].

Primary care physicians are in an excellent position to address smoking during routine consultations. To this end, physicians have assessment tools and brief interventions appropriate for the duration of consultations. However, these tools are difficult to use consistently in practice.

[Teleconsultation in practice].

Teleconsultation is subject to the same rules as face-to-face consultation. However, doctors who wish to integrate it into their activity must be aware of a certain number of requirements linked to this practice such as the need to adapt their working environment, to comply with security rules, to ensure the continuity of medical information or to be aware of good practices and billing possibilities. In this article, we try to answer the frequently asked questions of health professionals who wish to carry out remote consultations in good conditions.

[Legal aspects of teleconsultation].

There is no specific legal framework in Switzerland for the practice of telemedicine. The doctor carrying out a teleconsultation must therefore respect the general principles of medical practice : provide care online with professional recommendations, provide his patient with clear, appropriate and complete information, and also respect medical confidentiality. The doctor, due in particular to the limitation of the senses and the absence of direct physical examination, must maintain a degree of caution in the practice of remote consultations.

[Telemedicine in the era of COVID-19: a revolution ? The experience of the University Hospitals of Geneva].

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a reorganization of our health care system leading to an unhoped-for boom in telemedicine, particularly in Geneva. The deployment of HUG@home at the Geneva University Hospitals and of docteur@home in the doctors' offices has allowed health professionals to come together around a single solution thus ensuring continuity of care for patients with chronic diseases but also the triage and follow-up of patients with COVID-19 in compliance with security and confidentiality rules. The ease of use of remote consultation tools is essential for the sustainable anchoring of telemedicine in practice.

[Recommendations for the use of electronic mail in primary care].

Email is a great communication tool, but it's still rarely used by healthcare professionals. It can be used in exchanging information between healthcare professionals, but also among healthcare providers and patients. Studies that demonstrate a positive impact of email communication between health professionals and patients in the quality of healthcare are still lacking.

[Patients, doctors and the internet].

The majority of the Swiss population uses the internet to seek information about health. The objective is to be better informed, before or after the consultation. Doctors can advise their information-seeking patients about high quality websites, be it medical portals or websites dedicated to a specific pathology.

The EPAGE internet guideline as a decision support tool for determining the appropriateness of colonoscopy.

Background: Few studies have examined how physicians perceive guidelines, much less their perceptions of an Internet presentation of such guidelines. This study assessed physicians' acceptance ofan Internet-based guideline on the appropriateness of colonoscopy.

Methods: Gastroenterologists participating in an international observational study consulted an Internet-based guideline for consecutive patients referred for colonoscopy.

Patient use of the Internet for health care information in Switzerland.

Study Aims: The aim of this study was to examine for the first time the frequency of Internet use for medical purposes by patients in Switzerland.

Methods: In 2001 over a period of one month, 1604 patients at 8 medical practices in Switzerland completed a self-administered questionnaire on their access to the Internet and any search for medical information using this media. The attending physician supplied the patient's diagnosis and information on the severity of the disorder motivating the visit using a separate questionnaire.

[Medical internet, for the best and the worst].

The aim of this article is to suggest to physicians some tricks that will allow them "surf" through the internet and pass the initial traps while searching medical information in the Internet. We are convinced that the physician will find most of the answers to his daily clinical questions once "able to manage" the 10 medical sites proposed in this article.

Use of the World Wide Web to implement clinical practice guidelines: a feasibility study.

Background: Important efforts have been invested in the past few years in the development of quality clinical guidelines. However, the means for the effective dissemination of guidelines to practicing physicians have not been determined. Several studies have examined the possibilities offered by the World Wide Web (the Web), but studies examining the implementation of clinical guidelines in actual practice are clearly lacking.