Virtual Hospitals and Patient Experience: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Observational Study.

Background: Virtual care is increasingly incorporated within routine health care settings to improve patient experience and access to care. A patient's experience encompasses all the interactions an individual has with the health care system. This includes a greater emphasis on actively involving carers in the decisions and activities surrounding a patient's health care.

Are chronic condition management visits translatable to telehealth? Analysis of in-person consultations in primary care.

Background: Telehealth was rapidly adopted in primary care during COVID-19. However, there is a lack of research assessing how translatable in-person consultations are to telehealth.

Objective: To examine insights from in-person GP-Patient consultations for patients with chronic conditions, including 1/frequency, duration, conditions of physical examinations, and when they occur during consultations, 2/types of physical artefacts used, 3/clinical tasks performed, and 4/translatability of clinical tasks to telehealth.

Analysis of in-person general practice respiratory consultations: assessing translatability to telehealth.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic saw many GPs adopt telehealth as a consultation modality to minimise disease transmission. Patients presenting with respiratory ailments were particularly affected by this transition, given the overlap of general respiratory symptoms with those of COVID-19. It is unclear if the rapid transition to telehealth has compromised the ability to conduct certain tasks that were possible during in-person consultations.

Translating primary care to telehealth: analysis of in-person consultations on diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic had a considerable impact on primary care, resulting in rapid uptake of telehealth. Patients with chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), relied heavily on telehealth consultations during this period. It is important to assess whether tasks observed during T2DM or CVD in-person consultations are translatable to telehealth.

Visit Types in Primary Care With Telehealth Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review.

Background: Telehealth was rapidly incorporated into primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is limited evidence on which primary care visits used telehealth.

Objective: The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review to assess what visit types in primary care with use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic were reported; for each visit type identified in primary care, under what circumstances telehealth was suitable; and reported benefits and drawbacks of using telehealth in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Self-care Behaviors and Technology Used During COVID-19: Systematic Review.

Background: Self-care behaviors are essential for people living with chronic conditions; however, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed additional complications on their daily routines. Few studies have analyzed how self-care behaviors have changed during COVID-19 and the role of digital technology, especially among people with chronic conditions.

Objective: This study aims to review how self-care behaviors have changed for people with chronic conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what technology they have adopted to manage their conditions during that period.

A pilot of modified Conversation Analytic Role-play Method for one-to-one clinical communication training.

Objective: It can be difficult to identify specific skills to improve communication, particularly if feedback is generalised or vague. With the aim of providing specific feedback for improved doctor-patient communication, we piloted a modified Conversation Analytic Roleplay Method (CARM) for one-to-one training.

Methods: We recorded one surgical registrar during ward rounds in a hospital.