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Table 6.

Physicians’ comments regarding obstacles to the use of telemedicine.

Main obstacles to adoption of telemedicine^a	Respondents (n=127), n (%)
Inability to examine patients personally	48 (37.8)
Insufficient infrastructure support for telemedicine	40 (31.5)
Issues concerning the quality of patients’ data	28 (22.1)
Communicating issues with patients	18 (14.2)
Network issues	13 (10.2)
Lack of policy support	10 (7.9)
Others^b	49 (38.6)

^aThere were a total of 206 comments.

^bOther comments included low patient acceptance (n=5), lack of funds (n=4), lack of performance measures (n=4), inadequate telemedicine promotion (n=3), etc.