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

Fig 4. Telemedicine calls over the time with resolutions and patients age teleconsultations.

Fig 4

(a) The suggested actions on teleconsultations are divided into: maintaining patient in primary care (observation/isolation) or sending patient to emergency care attention such as Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the rest of the teleconsultations are general practice inquiries. (b) The distribution of patients’ age discussed on teleconsultations and its relation to the Brazilian demographic population. The red line represents a rate between patients ages teleconsultations and Brazilian demographic distribution, the chances of a physician from a medical center to call and discuss patients over 80 years are 5.0 times bigger than the rest of the groups.