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24.11.2020 | COVID-19 | Editorial Zur Zeit gratis

More room for telemedicine after COVID-19: lessons for primary care?

verfasst von: Livio Garattini, Marco Badinella Martini, Michele Zanetti

Erschienen in: The European Journal of Health Economics | Ausgabe 2/2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has put under pressure all the European health care systems, regardless of their type and structure. Telemedicine (TM) has been an almost unavoidable answer for primary care (PC) services to contain contagion during the first period of this catastrophic event. Starting from general practice, the pandemic has dramatically undermined the traditional face-to-face contact of the patient–physician relationship and brought TM to the forefront of PC on a broad scale, as never before [1]. …

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Titel: More room for telemedicine after COVID-19: lessons for primary care?
verfasst von: Livio Garattini
Marco Badinella Martini
Michele Zanetti
Publikationsdatum: 24.11.2020
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Schlagwort: COVID-19
Erschienen in: The European Journal of Health Economics / Ausgabe 2/2021
Print ISSN: 1618-7598
Elektronische ISSN: 1618-7601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-020-01248-y

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