Economic Evaluation of Pediatric Telemedicine Consultations to Rural Emergency Departments

Conclusions. From a health care payer perspective, telemedicine consultations to health care providers of acutely ill and injured children presenting to rural EDs are cost-saving (base-case and more than half of Monte Carlo simulation iterations) or cost-effective compared with telephone consultations.

Source: Medical Decision Making - August 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Yang, N. H., Dharmar, M., Yoo, B.-K., Leigh, J. P., Kuppermann, N., Romano, P. S., Nesbitt, T. S., Marcin, J. P. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research