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. 2023 Mar 20;25:e45812. doi: 10.2196/45812

Table 1.

Overview of preliminary and final themes.

Preliminary themes  Final themes 
  • Continuity or relation 

  • Known patient or issue

Previous relation and contact enhance suitability 

  • Establishing effective trajectories

    • Safer remote triage than telephone only

    • Tailoring the trajectory

    • Joint Consultations

    • The new “home visit”

Experiences of new potentials: optimizing workflow
  • Clinical suitability for specified reasons for contact

    • Infection control

    • Administrative issues and sick leave as part of trajectory

    • Mental health issues

    • Establishing contact with hesitant/vulnerable patients

Experiences of new potentials: exploring specific areas of clinical suitability 
  • Adapting to a new consultation style

    • One-problem approach

    • Degradation of communication quality

    • Impact of physical absence

Leaving the physical gold standard—weighing benefits against downsides
  • Inequity—lack of digital competence

  • Distractions and threatened confidentiality

  • Erosion of the basic trustful alliance

Quality and safety in a wider perspective