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. 2021 Jul 14;16(7):e0254339. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254339

Fig 1. Structure of TRS and the distribution of teleconsultations in Brazil.

Fig 1

(a) A flow process to perform teleconsultations at TRS, medical staff from clinical centers contact TRS through a telephone line (0800) that is answered by a physician teleconsultant (b) The frequency of physicians at TRS by specialization and gender (c) The flowchart of the process to retrieve and process the data for this study. The data was retrieved from primary (TRS) sources that passed through a validation process and secondary sources. Finally the free text data was preprocessed and used to estimate frequencies and vector representations and the structured text and secondary sources to plot the rest of the information.