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Table 1 Factors which may influence the avoided travel resulting from a particular telemedicine application

From: Estimating travel reduction associated with the use of telemedicine by patients and healthcare professionals: proposal for quantitative synthesis in a systematic review

Modality

Store and forward

 

Hybrid

 

Real time

Setting - referral source

Home

 

Primary care

 

Hospital

Setting - referral location

Metropolitan

 

Rural

Travel distance or travel time

Long (> = 1 hour)

 

Short (< 1 hour)

Patient age

Young (fetal and paediatric)

 

Adult

 

Elderly

Urgency

Elective

 

Emergency

Purpose

Diagnosis

 

Management (treatment, monitoring)

Health system

Private

 

Public

Specialty

Cardiology

 

Dermatology

 

Psychiatry

 

etc (see Table 4)