Evaluation of Telemedicine Use for Anesthesiology Pain Division: Retrospective, Observational Case Series Study.
Laleh JalilianIrene WuJakun IngXuezhi DongJoshua E SadikGeorge PanHeather HitsonErin ThomasTristan R GroganMichael SimkovicNirav KamdarPublished in: JMIR perioperative medicine (2022)
Telemedicine use for pain management reduced travel distance, travel time, and travel and time-based opportunity costs for patients with pain. We achieved the successful implementation of telemedicine across a pain division in an urban academic medical center with high patient satisfaction and patient cost savings.