Hasoon Jamal, Urits Ivan, Viswanath Omar, Kaye Alan D
Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, UTHealth McGovern Medical School.
Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
Health Psychol Res. 2022 Sep 4;10(3):38012. doi: 10.52965/001c.38012. eCollection 2022.
COVID-19 caused a drastic change in clinical medicine around the globe. In the United States, telemedicine was rapidly adopted on a wide scale to minimize direct patient interaction and to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Telemedicine also went hand in hand with the rapid movement of working remotely. This has provided several challenges to chronic pain management clinics along with other subspecialties. Telemedicine has also opened opportunities for providing valuable care for patients with significant barriers to healthcare professionals. Given the benefits and downfalls of telemedicine, it is ultimately up to the provider who has an established patient-physician relationship and best understands the patient's limitations and healthcare needs who can best determine which patient population telemedicine is appropriate for and how frequently it can be utilized for each individual patient.
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）在全球范围内给临床医学带来了巨大变化。在美国，远程医疗迅速得到广泛采用，以尽量减少患者之间的直接接触，并减少COVID-19病毒的传播。远程医疗还与远程工作的迅速普及同步发展。这给慢性疼痛管理诊所及其他亚专业带来了诸多挑战。远程医疗也为那些与医疗专业人员接触存在重大障碍的患者提供了获得宝贵护理的机会。鉴于远程医疗的利弊，最终应由建立了医患关系且最了解患者局限性和医疗需求的提供者，来最好地确定哪些患者群体适合远程医疗，以及每位患者可以多频繁地使用远程医疗。
