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. 2000 Jun 3;320(7248):1517–1520. doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7248.1517

Table.

Studies of patient satisfaction with teleconsultations

Study Type of teleconsultation No of participants Location
Callahan et al13 Psychiatry 93 USA
Blackmon et al16 Psychiatry (child) 43 USA
Baigent et al19 Psychiatry 63 Australia
Dongier et al20 Psychiatry (adult and child) 50 Canada
Clarke22 Psychiatry 32 Australia
Graham25 Psychiatry 39 USA
Baer et al30 Psychiatry (obsessive compulsive disorder) 10 USA
Ball et al33 Psychiatry 6 UK
McLaren et al35 Psychiatry 3 UK
Trott36 Psychiatry Not specified Australia
Loane et al6* Dermatology 334 UK
Lowitt et al7 Dermatology 139 USA
Gilmour et al8* Dermatology 126 UK
Oakley et al9 Dermatology 104 Australia
Jones et al18 Dermatology 51 UK
Brecht et al5 Multispecialty consultations 585 USA
Huston et al12 Multispecialty consultation 96 USA
Harrison et al17 Multispecialty consultation 54 UK
Brennan et al10 Emergency medicine 104 USA
Allen et al21 Oncology 39 USA
Kunkler et al32 Oncology 6 UK
Doolittle et al31 Hospice 6 USA
Conrath et al14 Family practice consultations 32 Canada
Itzak et al29 Primary care consultations 11 Israel
Pedersen et al23 Otolaryngology 26 Norway
Blakeslee et al15 Otolaryngology 36 USA
Duffy et al11 Diagnosis of speech and language disorders 150 in group A, 8 in group B USA
Takano et al27 Home health care (including medical consultations, physiotherapy, health and welfare services) 20 Japan
Whitten et al24 Home nursing 22 USA
Allen et al34 Home nursing 3 USA
Couturier et al28 Orthopaedic consultation 15 France
Hubble et al26 Patients with Parkinson's disease 9 USA
*

Study by Gilmour et al8 used some of same subjects as study by Loane et al.6