UNASSIGNED:世界卫生组织将电子健康定义为“在卫生部门统一使用信息技术和电子通信”。\"在沙特阿拉伯王国,由于COVID-19引起的危机,门诊病人大部分转移到虚拟诊所。这项研究旨在评估神经学顾问,专家\',以及沙特阿拉伯居民利用虚拟服务进行神经系统评估的经验和感知。
UNASSIGNED:这项横断面研究是通过向沙特阿拉伯的神经科医生和神经科居民发送匿名在线调查来进行的。这项调查是由作者开发的,包含三个主要部分:人口统计,亚专业和居住后的多年经验,和2019年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)大流行期间的虚拟诊所。
UNASSIGNED:沙特阿拉伯共有108名神经病学执业医师对调查做出了回应。总的来说,75%有经验的虚拟诊所,61%的人使用电话咨询。在神经病学临床实践中,与新转诊患者相比,随访患者的远程会诊存在显着差异(P<0.001),更适合后续病例。此外,与体格检查相比,大多数神经病学执业医师对虚拟执行历史记录任务表现出更高的信心(82.4%).然而,结果发现,咨询师(P<0.03)更有信心虚拟地执行颅神经,电机,协调,和锥体外系评估比神经科居民。医生认为,与患有神经肌肉和脱髓鞘疾病/多发性硬化症的患者相比,头痛和癫痫患者更适合进行远程咨询。此外,他们一致认为,患者经验(55.6%)和医师接受度(55.6%)是实施虚拟诊所的两个主要限制因素.
UNASSIGNED:这项研究表明,神经科医生在虚拟诊所比在体格检查中更有信心进行病史采集。相反,顾问实际上比神经科住院医师更有信心处理身体检查。此外,与其他亚专科相比,以电子方式处理的最受欢迎的诊所是头痛和癫痫诊所,主要使用病史诊断。需要进行更大样本量的进一步研究,以观察在神经病学虚拟诊所中履行不同职责的信心水平。
UNASSIGNED: The World Health Organization defined electronic health as \"the unified usage of information technology and electronic communications in the health sector.\" In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, outpatient encounters were largely shifted to virtual clinics due to the crisis caused by COVID-19. This study aimed to evaluate the neurology consultants\', specialists\', and residents\' experience and perception of utilizing virtual services for neurological assessment in Saudi Arabia.
UNASSIGNED: This cross-sectional study was conducted by sending an anonymous online survey to neurologists and neurology residents in Saudi Arabia. The survey was developed by the authors and contained three main sections: demographics, subspecialty and years of experience after residency, and virtual clinics during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
UNASSIGNED: A total of 108 neurology-practicing physicians in Saudi Arabia responded to the survey. Overall, 75% experienced virtual clinics, and 61% of them used phones for consultation. In neurology clinical practice, there was a significant difference (P < 0.001) regarding the teleconsultations for follow-up patients compared to the newly referred patients, being more suitable for the follow-up cases. Additionally, most neurology practicing physicians showed more confidence in performing history-taking tasks virtually (82.4%) than in physical examination. However, it was found that consultants were significantly (P < 0.03) more confident to virtually perform the cranial nerve, motor, coordination, and extrapyramidal assessments than the neurology residents. Physicians deemed it more suitable to conduct teleconsultations for patients with headaches and epilepsy than for those with neuromuscular and demyelinating diseases/multiple sclerosis. Furthermore, they agreed that patients\' experiences (55.6%) and physicians\' acceptance (55.6%) were the two main limitations to implementing virtual clinics.
UNASSIGNED: This study revealed that neurologists were more confident in performing history-taking in virtual clinics than in physical exams. On the contrary, consultants were more confident in handling the physical examination virtually than the neurology residents. Moreover, the most accepted clinics to be handled electronically were the headache and epilepsy clinics in comparison to the other subspecialties, being mainly diagnosed using history. Further studies with larger sample sizes are warranted to observe the level of confidence in performing different duties in neurology virtual clinics.