Efficiency, comprehensiveness and cost-effectiveness when comparing dictation and electronic templates for operative reports.

Surgeons typically document operative events using dictation services. Dictated reports are frequently incomplete or delayed. Electronic note templates could potentially improve this process.

A pilot study of usefulness of clinician-patient videoconferencing for making routine medical decisions in the nursing home.

Objectives: To pilot and assess the role of videoconferencing in clinicians' medical decision-making and their interactions with nursing home residents (NHRs).

Design: Paired virtual and bedside examinations. Face-to-face (FTF) examination of NHRs by off-site clinicians immediately followed videoconferencing between the same clinician-NHR pair.