Publications by authors named "Jordan Couceyro"
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- * Out of 134 contacted patients, 90 responded, with 95% expressing satisfaction with their telemedicine experience, and many reporting time savings and reduced work absence compared to in-person visits.
- * Although 49% preferred in-person visits, 34% favored telemedicine, and 50% felt comfortable proceeding with surgery based only on a telemedicine consultation. Telemedicine proved to be a valuable option for enhancing patient care accessibility.
Introduction: COVID-19 has accelerated the use of telemedicine in all aspects of health care delivery, including initial surgical evaluation. No existing literature investigates the safety and efficacy of telemedicine to preoperatively evaluate spine surgery candidates. Our objectives were: (1) Compare the change in visual analogue scale (VAS) scores between the telemedicine preoperative visit and in-person preoperative visit groups.
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